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Edenic covenant
conditional covenant; responsibility on both sides
Adam was responsible to obey
God would bless Adam with eternal life.
Adam's life was conditional on his obedience.
God promised Adam dominion over the earth and life everlasting in return for obedience (Genesis 1:28).
Adam disobeyed
Adam was expelled from Paradise.
death was the result (Genesis 2:16–17).“For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” (Genesis 3:19) But
God also left Adam and Eve with hope.
To the serpent God said, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.” (Genesis 3:15)
God would not allow friendship between man and Satan to last.
1.Fill The Earth - God gave Noah a similar commandment that he had given Adam and Eve. They were to fill the earth. The same Hebrew word that is used in Genesis 1:28 meaning to fill, not refill or restock. There is no idea of some Pre-Adamic race in the world.
2.Rule Over Animals - The rule over the animals would now be different. Fear and terror would now characterize the relationship of beasts to humanity (Genesis 9:1-2). God performed a gracious act in giving humankind the rule over the beasts. If the beasts were allowed to multiply without any restraint, they may have eventually wiped humanity off of the face of the earth.
New Diet? - Previously, there had been a vegetable diet, now there was a meat diet (Genesis 9:3).
Finally, the fact that humans could eat animals emphasized the gap between humanity and the animal kingdom-only humankind has been made in the image and likeness of God.
No More Floods - One of the promises God made to Noah and his descendants is that there would be no more floods like the one that they endured (Genesis 9:11)
Sign Of The Rainbow - God gave a sign of the rainbow to Noah and the rest of humanity that He would not destroy the earth again by means of a Flood (Genesis 9:13).
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