Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Online Missions Forum #5

What is the difference between a promise and a covenant?
  • What are the requirements?
  • Can you lose or opt out of one?
  • Use scriptural references

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

There actually isn't much difference at all. They are essentially the same thing, except that a promise requires a party to say something and keep his or her word on it. A covenant is similar, except that it is more of an agreement. Kind of like today we have contracts. It was similar to those two. So Abraham had a covenant with God, and God promised him a great inheritance and his descendants would be many. Also, God made a covenant with Noah, an agreement, and He promised him that He would not ever again flood the earth. (Genesis 15 & Genesis 8:20-22).

Anonymous said...

Frinzi Said:

A promise is an oath and a covenant is a binding agreement. An oath is a person saying they will do something. While a Covenant must be made between to people or God and his chosen person. You opt promise because it is not binding it just something one person agrees to do. God made a covenant with Abraham and it was binding between him and God. God made a promise to moses that he, he built an ark he would be safe.

Anonymous said...

Meg:
A covenant is an oath that generaly requires an action (such as Abraham and the things with the animals) a covenant is often between God and man. A covenant is often a if you.. then i'll...
A promise is very similar to a covenant, just not as binding.

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