Question 13 of 82
What Man Ought to Believe Concerning God
Did our first parents continue in the state in which they were created?
Answer
Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the state in which they were created by sinning against God () by eating the forbidden fruit ().
Read the 2 proof texts (KJV)
- Ecclesiastes 7:29
- Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
- Genesis 3:6-8
- 6And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.