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[30] Behold, days are coming -- the word of HASHEM -- when I will seal a new covenant with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah: [31] not like the covenant that I sealed with their forefathers on the day that I took hold of their hand to take them out of the land of Egypt, for they abrogated My covenant, although I became their Master -- the word of HASHEM. [32] For this is the covenant that I shall seal with the House of Israel after those days -- the word of HASHEM -- I will place My Torah within them and I will write it onto their heart; I will be God for them and they will be a people for Me. [33] They will no longer teach -- each man his fellow, each man his brother -- saying, "Know HASHEM!' For all of them will know Me, from their smallest to their greatest -- the word of HASHEM -- when I will forgive their iniquity and will no longer recall their sin.
Answer for yourself: Christians are constantly attesting that they are under a "New Covenant"...are they?
Answer for yourself: Is it possible that due to their lack of scholarship that they are mistaken and have relied on emotionalism rather than textual facts from the Bible which, when recognized, dispute their claim?
Let us examine the text from which they make such a boast: Jer. 31:30-33
Christians use verses 30 and 31 to 'prove' to that God promised that the Torah will be replaced by a "New" Torah, the Christian New Testament.
Answer for yourself: Is this a true interpretation of the text?
However, consider that those who say such things ignored half of this prophecy: verses 32 and 33. The new covenant is not a new Torah, but that the Torah, the original Torah, will be placed in one’s hearts and everyone in the world will know HASHEM.
Answer for yourself: If the Christian New Testament was really the fulfillment of this prophecy, why are their so many atheists in the world?
Answer for yourself: Why do Christians spend millions of dollars to missionize if the New Covenant has arrived and everyone "knows God"?
Nobody is supposed to say "Know HASHEM," because everyone will know Him, according to verse 33.
The Christian may attempt to answer that verses 32 and 33 are talking about the second coming, but it's absurd to say that there is at least a 2,000 year gap between verses 31 and 32. There is no indication of this gap in the text, quite the opposite, in fact. It appears as one prophecy. The Christian answer is illogical, and born of desperation.
Secondly, verses 30 and 31 don't speak of a new Torah, but a new 'Briss' (or 'Brit' in other Hebrew dialects). A Briss is not a set of laws, but a treaty, an agreement, a covenant. If the word was intended to mean 'Torah,' the word 'Torah’ would not be used in verse 32. We never find the word Briss to refer to Torah.
According to the Christian 'proof,' Briss must means Torah. (Recognize that if Briss could mean something else, like 'treaty,' there is no longer a proof from here to their New Testament.) Let's use their definition of 'Briss' and see if there were any other Torahs that were given as well (besides the Tanach and the Christian New Testament).
Answer for yourself: Now do you think that the New Covenant has really began yet? Better reconsider.
Answer for yourself: Then to what covenant should the Christian look for his relationship with God?
Answer for yourself: Are you aware that the Hebrew word for "new" in the first-place never meant to replace with another, but only renew and reaffirm and reestablish?
It sure looks to me like God never intended to replace His Covenant with His people but only to renew it by writing the Laws of God on the hearts of believers. This covenant has not been written on the hearts of all men yet, mainly because of the vast numbers of Christians world-wide numbering in the billions who teach contrary to the Word of God and don't espouse the Law at all, but rather operate counter productively to God by denying the Law and advocating instead that "they are no longer under the Law (Covenant renewed …remember?) but under grace. May God forgive us for hindering the Kingdom of God coming to all mankind. Shalom.