Chapter 7 - OF GOD’S COVENANT

1 While it's true that all people owe obedience to God as their creator, the distance between humanity and God is so vast that we could never have earned eternal life on our own. Instead, God willingly and graciously chose to offer it to us as a gift, which He made known through a covenant.

2 After humanity's fall, which brought us under the curse of the law, God was pleased to establish a covenant of grace. In this covenant, He freely offers life and salvation to sinners through Jesus Christ. To be saved, people must have faith in Christ. God also promises to give His Holy Spirit to all those chosen for eternal life, making them willing and able to believe.

3 This covenant is revealed in the Gospel, first to Adam in the promise of salvation through the "seed of the woman." It was then progressively revealed in greater detail until it was fully disclosed in the New Testament. This covenant is based on the eternal agreement between the Father and the Son concerning the redemption of the chosen. It is only through the grace of this covenant that all of Adam's descendants who were ever saved received eternal life and blessed immortality, as humanity is now completely unable to be accepted by God on the same terms that Adam was in his innocent state.