Baptist Confession (3)
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God created humanity upright and perfect.
God created humanity upright and perfect.
He gave them a righteous law that would have led to life if they had kept it but threatened death if they broke it.
He gave them a righteous law that would have led to life if they had kept it but threatened death if they broke it.
Yet they did not remain for long in this position of honor.
Yet they did not remain for long in this position of honor.
Satan used the craftiness of the serpent to seduce Eve, who then seduced Adam.
Satan used the craftiness of the serpent to seduce Eve, who then seduced Adam.
Adam acted without any outside compulsion and deliberately transgressed the law of their creation and the command given to them by eating the forbidden fruit.
Adam acted without any outside compulsion and deliberately transgressed the law of their creation and the command given to them by eating the forbidden fruit.
God was pleased, in keeping with his wise and holy counsel, to permit this act, because he had purposed to direct it for his own glory.
God was pleased, in keeping with his wise and holy counsel, to permit this act, because he had purposed to direct it for his own glory.
By this sin our first parents fell from their original righteousness and communion with God.
By this sin our first parents fell from their original righteousness and communion with God.
We fell in them, and through this, death came upon all.
We fell in them, and through this, death came upon all.
All became dead in sin
All became dead in sin
and completely defiled in all the capabilities and parts of soul and body.
and completely defiled in all the capabilities and parts of soul and body.
