Question 15 of 114
What Man Ought to Believe Concerning God
What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the estate wherein he was created?
Answer
When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death (; ).
Read the 2 proof texts (KJV)
- Galatians 3:12
- And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
- Genesis 2:17
- But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.