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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
covenant .
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Examples
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Out of this love, God enters into covenantal promises with Noah, with Abraham, with Israel, with Jesus' disciples, with the world.
Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards: The Bible Supports Same-Gender Marriage Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards 2011
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For example, God inspires us to use the covenantal pledge of fidelity between two women, Ruth and Naomi, as the second most-read Bible passage at weddings.
Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards: The Bible Supports Same-Gender Marriage Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards 2011
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Our sexuality carries within it a covenantal and eucharistic meaning through which we give the whole self to the other just as the Trinitarian God gives himself totally to us.
Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West 2009
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Out of this love, God enters into covenantal promises with Noah, with Abraham, with Israel, with Jesus' disciples, with the world.
Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards: The Bible Supports Same-Gender Marriage Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards 2011
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West, who brings this message to live audiences around the country, shows why the bedroom really needs the Church: Because sexuality has a nuptial, covenantal meaning — mirroring our relationship with God — and so sexuality, by its nature, has everything to do with Christianity.
Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West 2009
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Rather, it is congruent with the sovereignty and uniqueness of God that HE approaches us by the path of election, vocation, covenantal grace, redemption, justification and - as Christians confess - incarnation.
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Rather the continuing role of the covenantal people of Israel in God's salvific plan is dynamically related to the 'people of God made up of Jews and Gentiles – united in Christ', whom the Church confesses to be the universal mediator of creation and of salvation.
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Just as after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ there are not two unrelated covenants existing alongside each other, so there is not the covenantal people of Israel existing apart from and alongside the 'people of God made up of the Gentiles' (ZdK Declaration p17).
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Thus comes into being the people of God founded in the covenantal blood of Jesus, who calls his Church from both Jews and Gentiles (Ephesians 2, 11-21), on the basis of faith in Christ and by means of baptism, which is incorporation into his body, which is the Church (Lumen Gentium §14).
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To be married is to publicly proclaim one's love, loyalty, and singular commitment to the other; it is to swear a sacred, covenantal oath.
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