Conversion in the Old Testament
It is a strange sort of a statement for a Christian paper to make that we read in one published on the Pacific Coast. “In the Old Testament times there was no such thing as conversion,” and made in the face of such characters as Abraham, and Moses, and Joshua, and Elijah, and all the prophets, and Daniel and his three companions, and hosts of others, of whom the New Testament says, “these all died in faith.” As a reason for this, however, the paper that tells us this is one which does not believe in the perpetuity of the Law of God. The same article says, “To believe in Christ is not to obey the Law. To confess Christ is not to obey the Law. The repentance which Christ commands is not the repentance commanded by Jehovah.” And yet we would prefer to believe the words of our Lord Himself, “I and My Father are One.” “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness.” The belief that stops short of righteousness, or that leads to anything else other than obedience, is unchristian and spurious. True conversion instead of turning men from God’s law, writes that law in the heart.