Before the fall, man benefited from a relationship with his Creator wherein, by virtue of the covenant of works, God was his God. While remaining under the obligation of obeying God because of this covenant, fallen man lost his covenantal privileges which ensured him of God’s favour and found himself, from then on, under God’s wrath. While God remained God for all men even after the fall, sin made it so that he was no longer their God in a favourable covenantal connection.
