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Recognition of a failure to follow God’s commands brings about new capabilities. In violating God’s commandments, Adam and Eve come to learn that they can choose to live

Do I confused, or ignorant or worse. The Bible does not make a distinction between “covenant” and “contract” in the same way that I do in the Bible, the word “covenant” covers a lot of the semantic range that our word “contract” covers. I do agree with you when you say, “Semantically, so it is with covenant: A covenant is a contract, period. Certainly, we may believe in any contract initiated and signed off on by God. However, that inviolability does not reside in the basic concept of covenant (contract) itself--no matter how fervently both parties may desire their mutual and lasting fidelity” I think the language of kinship was put to us to use in covenants and treaties understanding because it eventually became the basis for Israel’s belief that God had entered into a covenant with them. It became the basis for the unity of the tribes. Close kinship applied only within a clan or a tribe. But also Israel use military alliances to extension of kinship. Therefore, the word allegiance applies to tribes to connection and promotes the necessary military alliance of the

Understand the theological concept of a “covenant of works” as applied to Adam. What conclusion does the textbook reach regarding the legitimacy of a “covenant of works?”

Chalmers’ article present the importance of the Noahic covenant within biblical theology. This article gives the reader a clear understanding of the establishment of the covenant relationship between God and Noah. Chalmers goes further to suggest that God’s commitment to creation is within the lining of the covenant agreement between God and Noah. Throughout the text Chalmers provides insight on God's judgement on sin, salvation of the righteous, and renewal of creation within the Noahic covenant. The article brings to life the notion that the Noahic covenant is a story of redemption of mankind and God’s love for all creation including man, the birds of the air, beast of the field and the earth itself. As others have look upon the Noahic covenant as less significant, Chalmers provides a great foundation into the importance of the Noahic covenant and the pathway of a relationship between God and

Adam gives to Cal what may have saved his deceased brother and son - the idea that man may overcome sin, and man may

God does not hold Himself distant from His creation, but He embraces it; He walks with it. He engages with that which He created. The story of Creation shows that the author of it all is personal, intimate, and cares about what He created. Act one gives us a glimpse of how the world was supposed to be; a beautiful, intimate, God –in –the –midst life of perfect satisfaction with the absence of sin. However, this all crumbled in Act two when Adam and Eve decided to disobey God and take their lives into

The life and testimony of the “chosen people” of God, in the past, are powerful Bible messages that could help Christians comprehend what it means to love and obey and to disregard and disobey God and His commands. In the previous section of this paper, I have discussed how Abel’s faith overcame the curse of sin and death in his life. His worship defined his unconditional love and obedience to God; As a result, God blessed and welcomed Abel in His presence. In contrast, Cain demonstrated his faith so selfishly. Therefore, the Lord did not regard him and his offering. Furthermore, Cain’s evil ways provoked God to drive him away from His presence. The story of Cain and Abel profoundly pictures both the blessings of faithful obedience and the curse of disobedience. Distinctively, worship is fundamental to people’s lives that it should be painstakingly attended. In essence, worship is a personal relationship with God; it intimately unites believers with God and His love that exudes life and power within them.

The Davidic, Adamic, and Abrahamic Covenants all promise the Messiah coming to fulfill the Law of the Profits and in the end smash Satan's head and triumph over him. The Noah Covenant reminds us that sin will not go unnoticed forever, but God will never again flood the earth to destroy all life on earth. Personally, these Covenants have helped guide me in my life promising Jesus, and reminding us that ultimately God will judge our sin. The Covenants express God's desire for us to personally know and obey Him

This is when Adam and Eve are thrown out of the Garden of Eden and nothing is as it should be. God is angry with his people as they continue to turn away from him. Eve was tempted by the serpent to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and she does. She also gives Adam some and he too eats it.

When it comes to how the Abrahamic covenant affected the relationship that God had with

The argument unfolds by firstly acknowledging the dissonance between the presupposition of original sin—the seemingly even and ubiquitous disbursal of misfortune—while one bears in mind the seemingly uniform disbursal of fortuity on pious and depraved alike. Common grace is imputed as the causation for this universality, which is the said to be an undeserved, indiscriminant outpouring of blessings from God. In fact, it is further posited that since

Although we as man know the course concepts of temptation and how we can fall the ownership of many ideas are taken into consideration for better understanding which each implication can be summarize by using the introduction topic fall of man and temptation. We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have The disobedience of Adam and Eve and their consequent loss of God's grace and the peace and happiness of the Garden of Eden. When they ate the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God punished them by drivingthem out of the garden and into the world,where they would be subject to sickness, pain,and eventual death.

Understanding the dynamic concept of covenant permeates everything God says in His Word and everything He does in a believer’s life. The following word study will examine the text of Exodus 19:1-8. The text begins with an obscure and severely brutalized people who are saved from slavery and are on the verge of a new covenant between God and man. The word in study is the Hebrew word האמנה, translated “covenant.”

The covenant is one of the most significant elements of Judaism for contemporary Jewish adherents, as it expresses the ongoing reciprocal relationship between God and the people of Israel. The covenant governs and regulates all aspects of Jewish life, and is recorded as a series of arguments between God and Jewish adherents. Promised the land of Canna, blamelessness and many descendants if he lived in the presence of God, Abraham, the ‘father of the Jewish people’ and first patriarch to enter a covenant with God, is a significant figure in Jewish History. The Abrahamic covenant was further fulfilled and renewed with Moses and the Sinai covenant, another covenant which is “central to the expression of Judaism and the identity of the Jewish people” (Hartney 2011 p.350). The intimate reciprocal relationship between God and Jewish adherents is further enhanced through the characteristics of the Jewish religion; beliefs and adherents, sacred texts, ethics and rituals. These characteristics serve to articulate how the covenant is a significant aspect of the Jewish faith that enhances the notion in Leviticus 26:12 that ‘I will be your God, and you will be my people’