Question 52 of 61
Of Man's Second Condition
When Adam the first man had sinned by doing naughtily, against what God bad him, yielding to Eve his wife, and to the Devil, more than to God: What was Adams Condition then? And what is now the Condition of every Child, of every Man, and of every Woman by Nature?
Answer
By the sin and naughtiness of Adam our Father, both Adam and we became not like to God, but like the Devil (; ).
Read the 2 proof texts (KJV)
- Genesis 3:12
- And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
- John 8:44
- Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.