#12289 The Covenants of God – Questions About Sacraments and Oaths - Marcus Peter
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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Dr. Marcus Peter answers questions about the covenants of God. He discusses how covenants tie into our modern Sacrements and how covenantal theology is key to understanding the Catholic faith!
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Questions Covered:
- 44:24 – Is there a relationship between the term sacramentum and oath. Would calling a sacrament an oath detract from its proper meaning?
- 51:08 – Should you keep engaging with a person who is having a sin conversation and wont correct it?
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| 0:34.4 | where you are. Maybe it's even Saturday morning where you are. |
| 0:42.2 | But whatever time it is, we're glad you're spending the time with us. And we did a good job. |
| 0:48.2 | We got a great Friday show for you, the second hour. The really dynamic and thoughtful Catholic speaker, John Siblon, will be here with us. And we're going to talk about re-engaging |
| 0:52.6 | disengaged Catholics. |
| 0:54.9 | And you know what a disengaged Catholic is? The word for that is, the majority. So we have a massive, |
| 1:01.2 | not problem, opportunity to bring people back to the practice of the faith. And John Siblant's going to |
| 1:07.6 | help us think through that. First hour is going to be confusing for you because you're going to think you tuned in an hour early. Who's on right before us on the EWTN network, Dr. Marcus Peter, and it is a wonderful job each day. And, you know, every now and then he's got time for us. And so we said, would you come on and talk about biblical covenants? |
| 1:28.4 | And let me tell you something. I know. Some people are like, oh, covenants, they taught us that |
| 1:33.8 | when I was getting confirmed or something. I don't know. No, the thing about the covenants, |
| 1:40.0 | especially the covenants that you find in the Hebrew scriptures, you want to understand the person |
| 1:46.5 | of Jesus Christ. You want to be closer to the person of Jesus Christ, understand that He fulfills |
| 1:52.2 | covenants. And when you understand those covenants, you understand the person. And so this is not |
| 1:57.3 | like a secondary thing. And it's actually an astonishing and really kind of fun topic. So we said to ourselves, you know what? Let's get an atheist rapper from Kuala Lumpur and see what he thinks about this. Dr. Marcus Peter. Thanks for being here with us. |
| 2:11.8 | Sorry, thank you for having me on. What an honor to be here, truly. Thank you. |
| 2:15.4 | I meant to say former atheist rapper from Kuala Lumpur. |
| 2:18.9 | I apologize. I left out one word on that. My bad. It's a crucial modifier. |
| 2:25.1 | Yeah, I know. That's the way I do it sometimes. But you, it's wonderful to see you in Catholic |
| 2:32.6 | media because you are a wonderful voice of Catholic media, but you are also the product of Catholic media. |
| 2:40.7 | So before we talk about covenants, will you tell us a little bit about that? |
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