Assumedly, most interpreters have suggested, Genesis implicitly affirms that continued life would follow from a life of obedience; some construe this promise of blessing to involve immortality, though most Reformed interpreters speak of it as confirmed, unending life as finite humans in God’s presence. With all these components in mind, we see that the “covenant of works” speaks of past, present, and future in as much as it (1) declares what God has done, (2) demands perfect obedience for continued
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