Covenant Reformed News – December 2020 • Volume XVIII, Issue 8
This article examines the relationship between Adam's federal headship and the doctrine of common grace, addressing the question of what aspects of Adam's pre-fall condition are binding on all humanity. Through careful exegetical analysis of Romans 5:12-21 and other Scripture passages, the author clarifies the proper theological boundaries of federal headship doctrine and its implications for understanding common grace.
Adam’s Federal Headship and Common Grace? A friend forwarded the following to me from one of his theological opponents: “You believe in creation ordinances. Don’t you also believe that Adam was the federal head of humanity (of the reprobate as well as the elect)? Yet Genesis 1:28 says that God ‘blessed’ that federal head of all men, implying that all mankind in him (including the reprobate) partook of that blessing and favour of God. The rest of this verse mentions the privileges of (1)...