Question 15 of 82
What Man Ought to Believe Concerning God
Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
Answer
The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression (; ).
Read the 2 proof texts (KJV)
- 1 Corinthians 15:22
- For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
- Romans 5:12
- Wherefore, 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: