Monday, October 30, 2006

OF THE LAW OF GOD

CONTINUING OUR REVISON OF THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION ALONG UNIVERSALIST LINES.

Section 1 of Chapter 19 concerning the Law of God reads as follows:

1. God gave to Adam a law, by which he bound him and all his posterity, to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience, promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it.[a]
[a]. Gen. 1:26-27; Gen. 2:17; Eph. 4:24; Rom. 2:14-15; Rom. 10:5; Rom. 5:12, 19; Gal. 3:10, 12; Ecc. 7:29

Some of the key topics raised by this section are:

1) Did this law constitute a Covenant of Works?

2) What was the nature of the Death threatened?

3) Did man have the ability to keep this law prior to the Fall?