The Adamic Covenant is made after the fall of man. It begins with the Adam and Eve’s awareness of their sin (Gn.3:7). Scofield terms this as the ‘awakening of moral responsibility’ (Scofield). This marks the transition from theoretical to experiential knowledge of good and evil. This covenant is characterized by more curses than blessings, making it distinct from the previous covenant. …show more content…
6:18). Noah finds favour with God as a result of his righteousness in the midst of all the corruption and forms the Covenant. It is made in the form of a verbal promise to Noah that God will spare him and his extended family, along with a male and female pair of every living being that God has created. In Gn. 9 the covenant is fully elaborated on. This covenant has significantly progressed from the previous two covenants where only two people were involved, but here God is making a covenant with Noah and his extended family. A form of very first human government is established in this covenant. God makes man responsible for other men and issues an instruction that no-one should eat food with life in it (Gn. 9:4) and thus allowing man to eat the flesh of every moving thing (Gn. 9:3).The idea that Every human being created in God’s own image is translated to killing another person is killing all humanity. This is tied up with Abel’s murder, the first deed committed after human beings were made independent rational being. Therefore, the first condition after flood with regard inter-human relations was the prohibition of murder (Rendtorff). In return God promises not to destroy the world again and creates a rainbow as a sign of the everlasting covenant – “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.”(Gn. …show more content…
12:1) marks the beginning of the Abrahamic covenant. The continual nature of this covenant was in the “primary reference to Israel, the descendants of Jacob, to whom the everlasting possession of the land is promised (Gn. 17:8), to whom the everlasting covenant is given (Gn. 17:7), and to whom God said, ‘I will be their God’ (Gn 17:8)”, as Scofield remarks (Scofield). God makes Abraham the father to the nations and askes the Gentiles to obey Abraham to be blesses by God otherwise be cursed.
“And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son (Gn. 22:17)
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; (Gn. 22:18)
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. ( Gn.