God’s Covenant with Adam after the Fall

March 9, 2023Posted inCovenants
The promise of God to Adam after the fall, implicit in his words to the serpent in Genesis 3:15, is the mother of all the promises of God in Old and New Testaments and the acorn from which grows the mighty oak tree of God's covenant with his people maintained and enriched throughout all of…

God’s Covenant with Adam in the Garden

March 2, 2023Posted inCovenants
Though the Scriptures do not tell us directly that God's relationship with Adam was covenantal, there was a promise implicit in his threat of death for eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is best not to call this a covenant of works.