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Our Creator Redeemer: An Introduction to Biblical Covenant Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Much is at stake in evangelical Christian theology when considering “the covenants”—Old Testament and New Testament. Theologically, how do we align the concerns of a popular conservative Christian culture that may rightly worry about the place of the Ten Commandments in the public square with a message that often seems to stress that those same commandments have all been nailed to the cross? Is...

This implies that Noah also stood in need of divine grace. Thus God’s grace found Noah, who realized his need of grace. Noah’s life was not “meriting” the grace of God, but was the result of the free and sovereign grace of God. Like Enoch, Noah also “walked with God,” which means that he followed the will of God and enjoyed a transforming fellowship with Him (Gen. 6:5). The word “covenant” (berît) was spoken for the first time by God to Noah: “But I will establish [heqîm] my covenant with you, and
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