God And Abraham Research Paper

The Relationship between God and Abraham In order to describe the significance of the covenant that God had with Abraham, let’s take a look at what the covenant was actually depicting. First, what is a covenant? A covenant is simply an agreement between two parties. There can be conditions that are involved for both parties (Conditional) or there could only be conditions involved for one of the parties (unconditional). If one of the parties should happen to fail in meeting their requirements, then the covenant is broken and neither side is required to fulfill their expectations. The term covenant is used many times throughout the book of Genesis and the book of Exodus. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your …show more content…
This was the first part of the covenant with Abram. God made this promise to Abram without expecting anything in return. Since this required nothing of him, it was said to be an unconditional covenant. This promise was showing Abram that God was going to use his blood line as God’s people. Abram would father a great many nations. This was also when God changed Abrams name to Abraham (meaning father of many). “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you” (Osiek, Genesis 17:4-6). Abram was very old when this was coming about, however, how could this be? Abram was a great man of faith. Even though he got impatient and tried to hurry God up by fathering a child with Hagar, this did not stop God from keeping his side of the covenant (Carvalho 42). God did not choose to break the covenant with Abraham, in fact he stepped back in almost thirteen years later because Abraham was not walking before God, and became completely to blame.