Covenant with Abraham
God established a covenant with Abraham and his seed.
This doctrine distinguishes traditions but is not a boundary of orthodoxy.
Key scriptures
- Gal 3:8 — And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
- Gen 12:1 — Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
- Gen 12:2 — And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
- Gen 15:6 — And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
- Gen 17:7 — And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
- Rom 4:3 — For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.