Of God’s Covenant with Man<\/p>\n
The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works.<\/em><\/p>\n God did not say, “In the day you eat of the tree, I’ll surely kill you”, but rather, “In the day you eat of the tree, you will surely die”. The communion with God was broken. Adam cut himself off. The judgement is more a consequence than it is a divine sentence.<\/p>\n Although there are elements of a covenant described in Genesis 1-3, I’m not sure there was a covenant per se. The lone scriptural reference in Hosea 6:7 is far from conclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Of God’s Covenant with Man The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works. God did not say, “In the day you eat of the tree, I’ll surely kill you”, but rather, “In the day you eat of the tree, you will surely die”. The communion with God was broken. Adam cut himself … <\/p>\n