Conditional Covenant In The Bible

God’s covenants with man Covenant, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is “A mutual agreement between two or more persons to do or refrain from doing certain acts; a compact, contract, bargain; sometimes, the undertaking, pledge, or promise of one of the parties” (OED, n. 3.d.). Several covenants between God and humanity can be found within The Old Testament; some are conditional, and some are unconditional. In his Manuscript, “The Eight Covenants of the Bible,” Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum defines a conditional covenant as the following:

A conditional covenant is a bilateral covenant in which a proposal of God to man is characterized by the formula: if you will, then I will, whereby God promises to grant special blessings to man providing

God clothed Adam and Eve with garments of skin, and told them that now that they had eaten from the forbidden tree and knew the difference between good and evil, that they were no longer allowed to eat from the tree of life, and live forever, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever” (Genesis 3:22). God then banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, “So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken” (Genesis 3:23). God guarded the garden with a cherubim and a flaming sword. Later, Eve gave birth to two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain was jealous of his brother Abel, and one day, he killed him. Before this, no human being had ever committed murder. Sin had entered the world, because of Adam and Eve’s

I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth” (Genesis