Assertion: new covenant | /r/CapableOf | create the church
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text: The first covenant created the nation of Israel and the new covenant created the church, the true spiritual Israel, and will eventually gather in the converted nation of Israel as well (Romans 11:26–27).
text: And since it is God's purpose that there be local churches as expressions of that universal body of Christ, we may say just as surely that the new covenant creates those churches and controls them.
text: The new covenant creates the church and guarantees that the gates of hell will not prevail against it and nothing will separate it from the love of God.