This 3,500-Year-Old Covenant Debunks Protestantism

From Totus Catholica

Protestants Set a Covenant Trap... Then This Happened The challenge: "If the new covenant is grace not works, why does your Church demand baptism, confession, Eucharist, and obedience?" But the entire objection assumes covenants work like contracts (exchanges of services). Scripture presents covenants as exchanges of persons - they create family bonds, not business deals . Every biblical covenant combines a free gift from God with real binding obligations that the gift itself makes possible . The Mosaic covenant began with God's liberation before He gave the law at Sinai. The new covenant doesn't eliminate obligations - it empowers them from the inside . 📌 The Point: The covenant trap Protestants set actually exposes the weakness of a "grace vs. obedience" framework. God's free gift creates real obligations, and those obligations aren't opposed to grace - they're the shape grace takes in human life . 📖 Core Sources Scripture: Genesis 15 & 17 - God makes a unilateral covenant with Abraham (Abraham does nothing to earn it), yet requires circumcision, obedience, faithfulness - the gift is free, the response is real Exodus & Deuteronomy 7:7-9 - God rescues Israel from slavery before giving the law at Sinai; the Ten Commandments aren't a ladder to earn freedom, but the shape of liberated life Jeremiah 31:31-34 - New covenant: God will write His law on their hearts - not law abolished, but law internalized by grace Ezekiel 36:26,27 - God promises "a new heart and a new spirit... I will cause you to walk in my statutes" - new covenant doesn't eliminate obligations, it empowers them from inside Matthew 26:28 - Jesus institutes new covenant at Last Supper: "This is my blood of the covenant poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins" Romans 3:28 - "Justified by faith apart from works of law" (Paul excludes works prior to grace, not works empowered by grace) Ephesians 2:8-10 - "By grace through faith... not by works, so no one may boast. For we are created in Christ Jesus for good works" Catholic Teaching: Council of Trent (1547) - Justification begins entirely by God's grace (not by human merit); grace transforms the person so they can live in charity Trent Canon 1 - Condemns anyone who says man can be justified by his own works without God's grace CCC 1966 - "The new law is the grace of the Holy Spirit working through faith in charity" CCC 2006 - "Merit is God crowning his own gifts in us" Church Fathers: St. Augustine - Grace doesn't cancel the human will; it heals and assists it so we can do the good God commands; perseverance itself is a gift of grace St. Ambrose - Sacraments are primarily God's action and God's gift (mystagogical teaching to newly baptized) St. Gregory of Nyssa - Baptism is "the aid to our weakness, the gift given in return for nothing on our part" Covenant Logic: The gift creates the relationship → the relationship requires fidelity → fidelity is made possible by the gift Sacraments aren't ways to purchase grace - they're the covenantal structure through which Christ communicates the grace He already gave freely 📺 Chapters 0:00 - The Challenge: Why Do Catholics "Demand" Sacraments if Grace is Free? 2:32 - How Covenants Actually Work: Genesis, Exodus, Jeremiah, Ezekiel 4:01 - Council of Trent: Grace Initiates, Empowers, Transforms 5:22 - Catholic Practice: Sacraments Are Means of Grace, Not Payment 6:36 - Objections: "Not by Works" (Ephesians 2), Assurance, Joint Declaration 1999 7:54 - Conclusion: The Trap Backfires - Grace Makes Covenant Life Possible 🌐 Connect 📿 https://totuscatholica.org/rosary 🌍 https://totuscatholica.org/ ✉️ https://totuscatholica.org/contact 🔍 https://catholicexaminationofconscien...