Similarities Between Genesis And Noahic Covenant

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Covenants play a significant role in setting out the path for the Old Testament and New Testament story. Covenant is the tool of making the promise becomes real and official. In Genesis, two covenants categorized as “the pioneers" agreements in setting out the outlook for the whole stories in the Bible: the Noahic covenant and the Abrahamic covenant. In these covenants, God presents Himself as the God who is faithful to what He said. Until the end of the stories, God kept His promises in regards to the ups and down conditions of the recipients of the covenant. These two covenants had shown us the development of the theme of “covenant” in the Book of Genesis.

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