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Jim_Baur
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Generally scholars say that there were five covenants: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and David.
What are the biblical passages for them?
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What are the biblical passages for them?
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Beryllos
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Here’s a start:
Abraham
Genesis 12:1-3, 15:5-6, 15:18, and especially Genesis 18.
Why don’t you just do a word/name search in an online Bible?
Abraham
Genesis 12:1-3, 15:5-6, 15:18, and especially Genesis 18.
Why don’t you just do a word/name search in an online Bible?
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Jim_Baur
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Darryl_B
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Beryllos
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I’m drawing a blank with Adam. I skimmed the first few chapters of Genesis but seem to have missed it. 
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detoutcoeur
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Perhaps God’s covenant with Adam of immortality if he did not eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen 2:16-17)?
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Darryl_B
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The covenant with Noah is Genesis 9:8-17.
The covenant with Adam is traditionally Genesis 3:15 (this is traditionally at least in protestant circles among covenant theologians, the Reformed branch), though it actually sounds more like a promise of hope amidst what can only be described as cursing, and whats more is it was directed to the serpent, not Adam.
But interestingly Abraham fell into a deep sleep, and the covenant was made during that deep sleep. Comparing this to the instance where Adam fell into a deep sleep the covenant would actually be “woman”, and fast forwarded to Jesus Christ on the cross, the Church.
So the concept of an Adamic covenant is really difficult to see, since there is nothing really in the text to indicate a covenant.
Maybe Adam didn’t need a covenant with God, maybe he was already walking with God until the fall.
The covenant with Adam is traditionally Genesis 3:15 (this is traditionally at least in protestant circles among covenant theologians, the Reformed branch), though it actually sounds more like a promise of hope amidst what can only be described as cursing, and whats more is it was directed to the serpent, not Adam.
But interestingly Abraham fell into a deep sleep, and the covenant was made during that deep sleep. Comparing this to the instance where Adam fell into a deep sleep the covenant would actually be “woman”, and fast forwarded to Jesus Christ on the cross, the Church.
So the concept of an Adamic covenant is really difficult to see, since there is nothing really in the text to indicate a covenant.
Maybe Adam didn’t need a covenant with God, maybe he was already walking with God until the fall.
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Beryllos
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Wait a second… the Covenant of Adam
(Genesis 1:27-29) God created male and female, blessed them, and told them to “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.” Thus God created an order (covenant) in which male and female live together in unitive and procreative love. God commands them to multiply and fill the earth. He also commands them to subdue the earth, to have dominion over the animals, and to take the plants for food.
Chapter 2 tells it in a different way, plus the bit about the forbidden fruit:
(2:15) God put the man in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.
(2:16-17) God told the man he could eat of every tree of the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
(2:18-24) God said that man should not be alone, and made for him a companion of his own flesh, so that man and wife should cleave together.
In Genesis 4, Cain and Abel make food offerings to God, and God accepts their offerings. Perhaps this is part of Adam’s covenant.
(Genesis 1:27-29) God created male and female, blessed them, and told them to “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.” Thus God created an order (covenant) in which male and female live together in unitive and procreative love. God commands them to multiply and fill the earth. He also commands them to subdue the earth, to have dominion over the animals, and to take the plants for food.
Chapter 2 tells it in a different way, plus the bit about the forbidden fruit:
(2:15) God put the man in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.
(2:16-17) God told the man he could eat of every tree of the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
(2:18-24) God said that man should not be alone, and made for him a companion of his own flesh, so that man and wife should cleave together.
In Genesis 4, Cain and Abel make food offerings to God, and God accepts their offerings. Perhaps this is part of Adam’s covenant.
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Darryl_B
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Wouldn’t “Be fruitful and fill the earth” be more of a blessing rather than a covenant.
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Beryllos
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Yes. I might be stretching it, equating the created order to a command and a covenant. I got this idea from something else I was reading in connection with another CAF discussion, but you know, it was way past my bedtime and I’m not sure I fully understand it.
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Jim_Baur
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This is all good!
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