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Lord’s Day 3Questions 6–8

Reformed Church in America English, 1879

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1879 Reformed Church in America Q&A text with inline proof references. Source: Wikisource scan transcription.

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6

Did God then create man so wicked and perverse?

By no means, but God created man good, and after his own image (Gen. 1;27), in righteousness and true holiness (Eph. 4;24) that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love him (Col. 3;10) and live with him in eternal happiness, to glorify and praise him. (Isa. 43;7).

7

Whence then proceeds this depravity of human nature?

From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise (Rom. 5;12); hence our nature is become so corrupt, that we are all conceived and born in sin (John 3;6).

8

Are we then so corrupt that we are wholly incapable of doing any good, and inclined to all wickedness?

Indeed we are (Rom. 7;18); except we are regenerated by the Spirit of God (John 3;3).