Well educated in the Lord, no faith in your bishop. Bishops and their opinions come and go, the Lord is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. You can build on sand if you want. My foundation is concrete.
Strange then that the old covenant was replaced with that of the N T yet God does not change. You have somehow divorced God from his own covenants.

Regards
DL
Not so. God covered His children with His grace and forgiveness from the beginning until the exodus of the Jews from Egypt.
It wasn't until the Jews asked for the Law, (FREE WILL) that they got the Law, and started dropping dead under the law.
And only they are subject to the Law.
The Law was
not God's idea. If it was, He would have presented Adam and Eve with the 600+ rules to live by. The Law was man's poor choice. God choice for us was Eden. Now God was put in the position of having to deal with our free will:
If God didn't judge sin, He would not be righteous and just.
If He condemned us, He would not be loving and forgiving.
So he did what any good Father would do.
Emanuel, (God with us) in the form of the man we call Jesus, took upon
Himself the sins of the world, bore the consequence of our sin, forgave us, loved us, and salvaged us from the disaster of our ignorant free will.
He is a just
and loving Father.