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Webster's defines a covenant as 1) a usually formal, solemn, and/or binding
agreement, viz: a compact, and 2) a written agreement or promise usually under
seal between two or more parties especially for the performance of some action.
Bible covenants may include obligations and/or responsibilities for all parties
involved; and then again may contain obligations and/or responsibilities for only
one side of the table with the other side involved as the beneficiary of a particular
benefit; sort of like an irrevocable trust.
The simplest of covenants are basically promissory and depend very heavily upon
the reliability of the benefactor. For example Abraham's Covenant; whereby the
supreme being, in so many words, guaranteed Abraham permanent possession of a
specific geographic region in the Mideast; and David's Covenant whereby the
supreme being, in so many words, guaranteed David's paternal descendants will
always be the men in line for his throne.
Those two covenants are unconditional, viz: there was nothing that either man
could possibly do to cause God to cancel His guarantees, nor was there anything
that either man could possibly to do make them more secure.
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Webster's defines a covenant as 1) a usually formal, solemn, and/or binding
agreement, viz: a compact, and 2) a written agreement or promise usually under
seal between two or more parties especially for the performance of some action.
Bible covenants may include obligations and/or responsibilities for all parties
involved; and then again may contain obligations and/or responsibilities for only
one side of the table with the other side involved as the beneficiary of a particular
benefit; sort of like an irrevocable trust.
The simplest of covenants are basically promissory and depend very heavily upon
the reliability of the benefactor. For example Abraham's Covenant; whereby the
supreme being, in so many words, guaranteed Abraham permanent possession of a
specific geographic region in the Mideast; and David's Covenant whereby the
supreme being, in so many words, guaranteed David's paternal descendants will
always be the men in line for his throne.
Those two covenants are unconditional, viz: there was nothing that either man
could possibly do to cause God to cancel His guarantees, nor was there anything
that either man could possibly to do make them more secure.
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