[Frapster]

It's not if you take it out. ;-)

[Praxeus]

"It's not if you take it out"

ok.. I know that was tongue in cheek, but...

If the concept is not systematically presented in the old covenant text, it does not exist in the new covenant text as doctrine.

Concoursely, if a concept is systematically presented in the old testament text, it is lawful as doctrine in the new, where context permits.