Question 44 of 61
The First Catechism of the Four Conditions of Every Man
What is our Condition now, by Adams sin and naughtiness, eating the fruit that God forbad him?
Answer
Our Condition by Nature, is very bad: it is sinfull; and Cursed (; ; ).
Read the 3 proof texts (KJV)
- Ephesians 2:1-3
- 1And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
- Romans 5:12, 18
- 12Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 18Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
- Galatians 3:12
- And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.