Why did we need a new covenant? Why didn't god get it right the first time?

Question

Still, is seems to me that god knew that man was condemned by Adam's fall so the old "do not sin" covenant was bound to fail. Why not start with the new "try not to sin and be forgiven if you do" covenant?

Answer 1

It was not a new covenant, it was the renewed covenant. Remembers it is an everlasting covenant (meaning never-ending)

Hbr 10:16 This [is] the covenant that I will renew with them after those days, saith Yahweh, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Isa 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; BECAUSE THEY have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, BROKEN THE EVERLASTING COVENANT.

Isa 24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Exd 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine:

Nothing has ever changed, Keep the Laws of Yahweh for him to be your Father.

Answer 2

It wasn't that God didn't get it right, man didn't get it right. Man disobeyed God. That's why there had to be a new covenant, b/c under the old covenant when sins were comitted there had to be a shedding of blood or a sacrifice of an animal, bet yet it never erased the sins, but just covered them up. Under the new covenant b/c of Jesus dying on the cross for us once and for all we now have the right to come into God's presence b/c of the blood of Jesus, and be forgiven of our sins, by just asking and repenting.

Answer 3

A covenant is a contract where both parties make promises and have "rights" and responsibilities. Humanity didn't uphold their end of the first covenant; God loved us enough to give us another chance.

Answer 4

there is one main covenant that was altered several times by god because of mans constant falling. god remained true to his word and fulfilled his covenant through jesus.
the covenants
1)adam and eve
2)noah and his family
3)moses
4)abraham
5)david and lastly jesus.
in all the first five covenants you can see a consistent pattern of righteousness,sin,repentence,righteousness and back to sin, god ended this pattern through the perfection of the law and the new and everlasting covenant fulfilled through jesus. we can see gods fatherly plan to bring all nations to be his children in the salvation history of both old and new testament writings.

Answer 5

no, it wasn't G-d who failed the covenant. it was people. a group of weak-minded individuals felt that their end of the bargain was too difficult to live up to, and so like generations of israelites before them they allowed themselves to be influenced by the religious practices of the foreigners around them. these new guys were just a bit more creative in that they rationalized their betrayal of the covenant by claiming almighty G-d was the one who failed the covenant, not them, and therefore created a new covenant to suit them.

Answer 6

your really grasping for straws, trying to make God out to be stupid.
The first covenant was fine, it was human kind that messed it up.