THE COVENANTS OF SCRIPTURE

Part Two
Bibliology: 14 THE COVENANTS OF SCRIPTURE
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

We are not here concerned with covenants between man and man, but only with those between God and man. Scofield lists eight such covenants: the Edenic, the Adamic, the Noahic, the Abrahamic, the Mosaic, the Palestinian, the Davidic, and The New Covenant.⁴ In addition to these Chafer lists a second New Covenant, holding that one New Covenant has been made with Israel and another with the Church.⁵ Not all of these arrangements are actually called covenants in the Bible, but they do seem to partake of the nature of covenants. Strangely enough, neither Scofield nor Chafer mention the Covenant of Circumcision (Acts 7:8). While there is a connection between the covenant made with Abram in Genesis 15 and that of Circumcision made in Genesis 17, Paul makes an important distinction between the two in Romans 4. In what follows we shall list all of the arrangements which have been made by God and which have been called covenants, whether or not the Scripture so designates them.

4            The Scofield Reference Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 1945), p. 1357.

5            Chalet, op. cit., VII, pp. 98, 99.

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