Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 3
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Question 6: Did God, then, create man so wicked and perverse?
Question 6: Did God, then, create man so wicked and perverse?
Why is this question important?
Nilikha ba ng Diyos ang tao na napakasama at napakasuwail? Hindi, sa halip, nilikha ng Diyos na mabuti ang tao at ayon sa Kanyang wangis, na ang ibig sabihin ay, may totoong katuwiran at kabanalan, ng sa gayon ay makilala niyang tunay ang Diyos na kanyang Manlilikha, taus-puso niya itong ibigin, at mamuhay na kapiling Siya sa magpasawalang hanggang kaligayahan upang Siya’y purihin at luwalhatiin.
The Reformation Study Bible: English Standard Version (2015 Edition) The Westminster Larger Catechism
1. What is the chief and highest end of man?
Man’s chief and highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy Him forever.
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
What does it mean to be created in the image of God?
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Sa kabila ng masamang kalagayan ng tao, paano ito nagbibigay sa atin ngayon ng pag-asa?
Question 7: From where, then, did man’s depraved nature come?
Question 7: From where, then, did man’s depraved nature come?
Paano ito karaniwang sinasagot ng mga tao ngayon?
Q. From where, then, did man’s depraved nature come?
A. From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise, for there our nature became so corrupt that we are all conceived and born in sin.
Kung gayon saan galing itong kasamaan ng kalikasan ng tao? Ito ay nagmula sa pagkakasala at pagsuway ng ating unang mga magulang, sina Adan at si Eba, sa Paraiso, sapagkat doon ang ating kalikasan ay naging napakasama kaya tayong lahat ay ipinaglihi at ipinanganak sa kasalanan.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
Paano nito binabago ang pagdating natin sa sarili natin at sa ibang tao?
Question 8: But are we so corrupt that we are totally unable to do any good and inclined to all evil?
Question 8: But are we so corrupt that we are totally unable to do any good and inclined to all evil?
Ano ang karaniwang sagot dito?
Q. But are we so corrupt that we are totally unable to do any good and inclined to all evil?
A. Yes, unless we are regenerated by the Spirit of God.
Subalit gayon na lang ba tayo kasama na wala na tayong kakayahang gumawa ng kahit anong kabutihan at puro na lang kasamaan? Oo, maliban na tayo ay ipanganak na muli sa pamamagitan ng Espiritu ng Diyos.
Bakit mahirap para sa marami na tanggapin ang sagot na ito?
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
What is the implication of this doctrine in evangelism? In parenting? In community transformation?
There is nothing in fallen men themselves, by nature, that can bring about the change that is needed. If a man is to be saved, it will have to be by God’s almighty power and unmerited mercy, and that only. - G. I. Williamson
An offence committed against the highest good, deserves the most extreme punishment, which consists in the eternal destruction of the creature; for God has said “Thou shalt surely die.” It is, therefore, of his mercy that he should rescue any from this general ruin, and save them through Christ.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
The Commentary of Dr. Zacharias Ursinus on the Heidelberg Catechism I. From What Does It Appear that Sin Is in the World, and that It Is Also in Us?
After the law has convinced us that we are sinners, the gospel takes this principle as established, and concludes that in as much as we are sinners in ourselves, we must, therefore, seek righteousness out of ourselves, in Christ, if we would be saved.