When God made a covenant with Adam, it included you and me, because Adam represented the entire human race.

What that means is that all human beings who descend from Adam participate in the Adamic covenant.

We are by nature as the children of Adam necessarily involved in a covenant

relationship with God.

But what about people outside the church? There are countless people and religious groups who don't believe in the God of the Bible.

Does that mean that they are not in covenant with God?

Or is there a common covenant that includes atheists, agnostics, and all non-Christians?

Well, that's what we'll find out today.

Welcome to Renewing Your Mind, and this week we're featuring R.C. Sproles series, The Promise

Keeper, the God of the Covenants.

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Renewing Your Mind.org. Well, here's Dr. Sprawl on the Creation Covenant.

Today I want to focus our attention on the first covenant that God makes with mankind.

And actually, when we look at that very first covenant, it is known by different names and

for different reasons.

Sometimes that first covenant is referred to simply as the Adamic covenant, for obvious reasons, it was made with

Adam. And the second way in which the first covenant is described is that it's often called

the creation covenant.

Now before I mention the third designation, I want to talk a little bit about these two designations.

Obviously, we call that first covenant Adamic because Adam is related to God in it, and the

term Adam means man in the generic sense, mankind,

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