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April 2021 59 The Perfectly Simple Triune Covenant God descriptions of this covenant include walking with God (Enoch, Gen- esis 5:22; Noah, Genesis 6:9) and being God’s friend (Abraham: 2 Chronicles 20:6-7; Isaiah 41:8; James 2:23). In John 15:13-15, Jesus calls His disciples and, therefore, all bel
Covenant, Dating
And He is the covenant God. For the idea of the covenant is not that of an agreement, pact, or alliance: it is a bond of friendship and living fellowship. Friendship is that bond of fellowship between persons according to which and by which they enter into one another's life in perfect knowledge and
The Covenantal Assembly and the Antithesis
In the Christian home, therefore, the covenant life of God comes to manifestation in the relationships of parents and children and the more we live in the home from the consciousness of that covenant life, the more we will realize the significance of the truth of the Trinity. The reason for this lie
persons implies agreement. At the same time, in the difference of their individual, personal properties is found the possibility for the highest fellowship and cooperation. The oneness and difference of the persons give eternal, divine harmony. And the love-life of God, welling up out of the unfatho
God is a covenant being not primarily because of the people with whom he dwells, but because of himself. He does not make a contract or treaty with himself. Nor do the persons of the Trinity need to bind themselves to one another through promises. What defines the internal covenant life of God is th
according to him, is an act of friendship (Gem. Gratie, I, 287). Whether now the essential idea of the covenant must be sought in the friendship out of which the alliance arises, or in the alliance in which the friendship takes form against the mutual enemy, is less obvious. According to this histor