Question 47 of 61
The Second Catechism: Of Man's First Condition
What was Mans Condition at first, when God made all the World? Was man then Bad, or Good?
Answer
God made all good, God made Man like himself, good; for God is good (; ; ).
Read the 3 proof texts (KJV)
- Genesis 1:26-27, 31
- 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
- Psalm 34:8
- O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
- Psalm 119:68
- Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.