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A Covenant Promise Research Paper

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A Covenant Promise

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. With just the words from the Creator’s mouth, God formed the stars and planets, the land and sea, the plants and animals. Upon creating these things, the God of wonders declared it, “good.” However, God, in three persons, resolved to make a special creation, one for Godself, one in God’s own image, and one about whom God would call, “very good.” Humankind, man and female, were created and placed in the Garden of Eden, a land of peace, protection, and provision. Out of the ground, God brought up every tree, but in the center of the garden there existed two trees – the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God gave dominion over the land and …show more content…

In fact, Jesus begins his ministry by reading from the prophet Isaiah to announce his mission. In the synagogue of his hometown, Jesus read, “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” The Gospel of John tells us that that Christ came not only to bring light, but was light to a darkened world. Paul tells us in Romans that it was Christ Jesus who set us free from the law of sin and death. Christ by His own confession, says that He came not to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. Jesus Christ, God’s one and only son, came that whoever believes in him, will not perish, but will have everlasting life. But how can this be? How is this even possible? This process of salvation is called the atonement, and it refers to how Jesus makes us one with God. Over the centuries that the church has been established, countless have written on the specifics of the incarnation, but I will tell you what I believe from what I see in …show more content…

Jesus is the son who will destroy the serpent at the expense of getting struck. Jesus is the way that God godself can be the sole deliverer as stated in the promise to Abraham. Jesus is the better Moses who will lead God’s people out of bondage. Jesus is the better David who will set-up an eternal dynasty that will never fail. Jesus is the suffering servant seen in Isaiah. Jesus is the one who is the fulfillment of all righteousness that Malachi talks about. Jesus is our hope. Jesus though divine, was also fully human, and He experienced the full spectrum of temptation; nevertheless, He did not sin. The message of Christ was one that went against the grain of the religious norm or expectations of the Messiah. The people of Israel expected a military leader, but they found a humble servant who came to give life, not to take. The people of Israel rigorously clung to the law which they could not keep for the hope of their salvation, but Jesus condensed the law into two commands - Love God with all you have, and Love people as you love

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