Edited sentence: Covenant Theologians argue that these are unifying concepts in Scripture, by good and necessary consequence.Covenant Theologians believe that the gospel of grace has been preached since the protoevangelium of Genesis 3:15 and is not restricted to the New Covenant.Covenant Theologians respond that historically, they have been careful to distinguish both the continuity and the discontinuity between covenants.Critics of Covenant Theology believe it has serious weaknesses including:.It applies the Old Testament moral law to the New Testament believer in a way perceived to be in contradiction with the teachings of the Apostle Paul.It does not make a distinction between the gospel of grace and the gospel of the kingdom.It is also faulted for failing to distinguish sharply between Israel and the New Testament church.It speaks of two (or three) covenants not mentioned as such in Scripture, namely the covenants of works, grace, and redemption.It uses symbolic, typological, and eschatological interpretations of Scripture that are not perceived to be consistent with a literal hermeneutic.Its emphasis on the organic unity of all postlapsarian covenants (for instance, the Abrahamic and the Mosaic covenants) seems to deemphasize the alleged distinctions between them.Many Covenant Theologians reject this criticism pointing out the teachings in the New Testament regarding the perpetuity of the moral law; when Paul speaks of freedom from the law, it is argued that he speaks of freedom from the law's condemnation and curses, not freedom from the moral obligation.Most Covenant Theologians reject this criticism because they believe apocalyptic literature is to be interpreted apocalyptically (that is, in accord with its genre), whereas dispensationalists, for example, believe that apocalyptic literature is to be interpreted the same way as narrative and didactic literature (see Biblical hermeneutics).Whereas Dispensationalists tend to view the kingdom as strictly geo-political Israel, Covenant Theology understands it as the consummate heavenly kingdom, in which the Davidic kingdom participated as a type