Brother Ducky
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Thoughts on the Covenant of Works. Who was/is involved? Started/ended? Real or not?
Covenant of Works
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genuineoriginal
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The "Covenant of works" in "Covenant Theology" (also known as Covenantalism, Federal theology, or Federalism) is an imaginary covenant invented by Calvinist/Reformed Christians.
The other two imaginary covenants in "Covenant Theology" are the "Covenant of grace" and "Covenant of redemption".
None of these "covenants" are actually found in the Bible, but Calvinist/Reformed theologians have taken bits and pieces of scripture and stitched them together to create these "covenants" as a framework for their theology.
A similar thing happened when Dispensationalists took bits and pieces of scripture and stitched them together to create seven "dispensations".
Brother Ducky
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By saying the covenant of works is imaginary, are you arguing against the term or the concept?
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genuineoriginal
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The term "covenant of works" refers to an imaginary covenant.
Ate what?
Brother Ducky
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OK, against the concept.
Potato soup, but that was an artifact of an incompletely removed statement.
genuineoriginal
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There are plenty of covenants mentioned in the Bible, why would people that falsely claim to be "Sola Scriptura" feel the need to make up three new covenants?
Bradley D
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"...the Covenant of Works, was made in the Garden of Eden between God and Adam and promised life for obedience and death for disobedience. Adam disobeyed God and broke the covenant, and so the third covenant was made between God and all of mankind, who also fell with Adam according to Romans 5:12-21.
This third covenant, the Covenant of Grace, promised eternal blessing for belief in Christ and obedience to God's word. It is thus seen as the basis for all biblical covenants that God made individually with Noah, Abraham, and David, nationally with O.T. Israel as a people, and universally with man in the New Covenant. These individual covenants are called the "biblical covenants" because they are explicitly described as such in the Bible."
http://www.theopedia.com/covenant-theology
This third covenant, the Covenant of Grace, promised eternal blessing for belief in Christ and obedience to God's word. It is thus seen as the basis for all biblical covenants that God made individually with Noah, Abraham, and David, nationally with O.T. Israel as a people, and universally with man in the New Covenant. These individual covenants are called the "biblical covenants" because they are explicitly described as such in the Bible."
http://www.theopedia.com/covenant-theology