Abraham Benefits From The Covenant

Throughout Genesis, God interacts with man and the world, and when he does this, there tends to be a theme of leading to the creation of or the actual creation of covenants with a special person or family line. During the events of these stories, God finds favor with a person or their lineage and makes a promise with that certain person or lineage. These covenants usually benefit both God and the person who God makes the covenant with. For example, in Genesis 12, God makes a covenant with Abraham that continues through his descendants, the other patriarchs. In this specific covenant, Abraham benefits from this because he is promised land, blessings, and descendants. God benefits from this covenant because he now has a lineage that will bring

One of which is his attitude toward the evil that is brought to man and the world by sin. God becomes greatly angered by these things that man does and causes him to bring forth his rage upon them. When God is portrayed like this, he looks like more like how the Greek gods were seen by the people: God is seen as a force to be feared because of his awesome power and might, and as a God that does not take lightly to the evil things that come forth from creation. The other personality God seems to have is that he is very fond of the men that find favor with him. It even appears to be the case that he gives these people much more leeway than the others because of their importance to establishing his chosen people. For example, Abraham would often not tell the kings of nations that he journeyed in that Sarah was his wife. Because of this, the kings would often be lead into sin by this false information, but because of Abraham’s dishonesty and possibly even his partially lacking trust in God that everything would work out. When events like this happen though, God does not become angry with Abraham, but takes his side instead. This shows that God is willing to cut these chosen men some slack because of their importance to the story. In conclusion, God is interacting with men in Genesis to further the progression of the story of his chosen people. From these interactions comes either