What reason is given for making the new covenant?

Answer

"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For
finding fault with them, He says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant."
Heb. 8:7,8.
NOTE - The chief fault in connection with the old covenant lay with the People. They were not
able, in themselves, to fulfil their part of it, and it provided them no help for so doing. There was no Christ
in it. It was of works and not of grace. It was valuable only as a means of impressing upon them their
sinfulness and their need of divine aid.

What was God's design in thus giving the Scriptures?
Is there salvation through any other?
After resting on the seventh day, what did God do?
Who gives this rest from sin?
What is the character of this new power?
7. With what is witchcraft classed by Paul, and what does he say to those who are guilty of such things?
To whom has God given the earth?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle