Covenant Reformed News – May 2023 • Volume XIX, Issue 13
This article examines objections to Reformed doctrines of election and limited atonement by analyzing the account of Noah and the flood, specifically addressing two arguments from universal grace advocates: the seven-day delay before the flood and the ark's capacity to hold more people than Noah's family. The author responds to these exegetical claims to defend the consistency of God's sovereign grace and particular redemption with the biblical narrative.
The Days of Noah (1) We have a number of different though related questions from the same reader and, since they all concern Noah and the building of the ark, we will treat them together in this article and the next, DV. The brother first quotes from Genesis 7: “And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark … For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the...