All of us - every person born since Adam - instinctively knows there's a relationship between salvation

upon God's good creation, but few passages pack the rhetorical power of Psalm 46 in describing what Adam's

Adam and Eve’s close communion with God in the garden of Eden and proper rule over the earth was a picture

Adam and Eve would reflect their Father in Heaven in who they were and what jobs He gave them to do in

It was His Word that brought the universe into being; His spoke His covenant commandment to Adam, called

This is one of the reasons why the Reformers were so adamant that Christians look only to God's Word

Just like Adam, Abram stayed silently passive through this whole process, abdicating his responsibility

Unconditional Election Article 1 - God's right to condemn all people Since all people have sinned in Adam

It has echoes of the creation mandate God first gave to Adam & Eve, to be fruitful and multiply (Gen.

All of this will occur because the void caused by Adam's sin will finally be filled: "the earth will