Pick up any Christian translation of the Bible, and you will find Hebrews 8:7 making a very strange claim: “For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second” (nas). Since we know that the term “first covenant” is, in fact, referring to the Torah of Moses (Hebrews 9:16), it is then concluded that Hebrews 8:7 must be teaching us that God’s Torah—what Scripture itself calls “perfect” (James 1:25, Psalm 19:7)—is actually defective. And if the passage says that the Torah is not “faultless,” then this would naturally lead to it becoming old, obsolete, and near disappearing (Hebrews 8:13). It is a very strange claim to make—that a covenant of God is faulty—because not only is it absurd, but it is not what the Scriptures say.
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