"God deserves our fellowship and longs to have a covenant relationship with us."
             A covenant is an agreement or relationship between two people or between God and man. It includes a promise, a condition, a penalty, and a provision. It also involves obligations and benefits for performance. In general, there are three types of covenant:
             - A covenant imposed upon one party by a superior party
             When God wants to govern, relate to, or establish a relationship with human beings he does it through a Covenant. When the Bible uses the word "covenant" to describe the relationship between God and man, it indicates a gracious responsibility that God has entered into for our benefit and God will bless those who will receive the promises due to their faith and who commit themselves to the obligations which this task involves. In this assignment I will concentrate on God's Covenant with man, in particular, I will be looking at God's Covenant with Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Israel and emphasize why Covenants are an important theme for Biblical studies and Christianity as a whole.
             "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." God created Adam and Eve, the first human beings who together would be "masters over all life" (Gen. 1:26) this role would carry many responsibilities with which they would share with God. Adam and Eve would live in a garden and have all their needs provided for, God only gave them one command; do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If Adam and Eve obeyed God's commandment then they would have eternal life on earth but if they disobeyed God then they would die.
             The word covenant is not used but it is implied, although it is often referred to as the "Covenant of life" because life was the promise in return for obedience. Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate from the tree, their disobedi...