LBCF 6.2-3_The Fall of Mankind

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The Extent and Impacts of the Fall

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LBCF 6:2-3

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. All became dead in sin and completely defiled in all the capabilities and parts of soul and body.
By God’s appointment, they were the root and the representatives of the whole human race. Because of this, the guilt of their sin was accounted, and their corrupt nature passed on, to all their offspring who descended from them by ordinary procreation.
Their descendants are now conceived in sin and are by nature children of wrath, the servants of sin, and partakers of death and all other miseries—spiritual, temporal, and eternal—unless the Lord Jesus sets them free.

The Effects of the Fall

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By this sin our first parents fell from their original righteousness and communion with God

How exactly does this sin of Adam in the Garden of Eden affect all the human beings of all times who have descended from him? Read Romans 5:12,18,19

What happened to their communion with God?

By this sin man must have instantly been cut off from this loving communion of the divine Spirit. This must have been under any constitution the natural effect of sin. And under (see Chap. vii., § 2) that covenant relation into which man had been introduced in the gracious providence of God at his creation, it was specifically provided that the commission of the forbidden act should be followed by instant death; that is, instant penal exclusion from the source of all moral and spiritual life. Gen. 2:17.

What occurred regarding their righteousness?

Q. 21. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell?

A. The sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam’s first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin, together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.

Why isn’t it enough to believe that our sinful state is solely from actual transgressions?

According to Ps. 51:5; 58:3; Job 14:4, at what point do people receive their sinful natures?

Is any person born of a human father and mother exempt from this nature?

How was Christ exempt from original sin?

The Extent of the Fall

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We fell in them, and through this, death came upon all.

Q. 22. What is the misery of that state whereinto man fell?

A. All mankind, by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever.

According to Rom. 3:10–18; 8:6, 7; 1 Cor. 2:14; Eph. 2:1–3 what are the practical effects of being born a sinner?

LBCF 6.3
They being the root, and by God’s appointment, standing in the room and stead of all mankind, the guilt of the sin was imputed, and corrupted nature conveyed, to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation, being now conceived in sin, and by nature children of wrath, the servants of sin, the subjects of death, and all other miseries, spiritual, temporal, and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus set them free.

How is Adam’s sin made ours?

(1.) By imputation. The Pelagians of old held, that Adam’s transgression is hurtful to posterity by imitation only, not by imputation. But the text, ‘In whom all have sinned,’ confutes that.

(2.) Adam’s sin is ours by propagation. Not only is the guilt of Adam’s sin imputed to us, but the depravity and corruption of his nature is transmitted to us, as poison is carried from the fountain to the cistern. This is that which we call original sin. ‘In sin did my mother conceive me.’ Psa 51:1. Adam’s leprosy cleaves to us, as Naaman’s leprosy did to Gehazi. 2 Kings 5:57.

The Ramifications of the Fall

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All became dead in sin and completely defiled in all the capabilities and parts of soul and body

In summary, describe the condition and need of every person born of a human father and mother.

How does the LBCF 6.4 guide you in your answer here?

Steve Farrish, in the Founders Journal made this statement. Do you agree, or disagree?
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Protestant theology thus teaches that the affect Adam’s first sin has on all his progeny is twofold: 1) it causes them from the moment of conception to be corrupt by nature; and 2) it causes them from the moment of conception to stand guilty before God as sinners.

THOMAS WATSON. Body of Practical Divinity.

Original sin has depraved the intellectual part of man

Body of Practical Divinity (3. Original Sin)
As in the creation ‘darkness was upon the face of the deep, so it is with the understanding; darkness is upon the face of this deep. As there is salt in every drop of the sea, bitterness in every branch of wormwood, so there is sin in every faculty.
The mind is darkened, we know little of God. Ever since Adam did eat of the tree of knowledge, and his eyes were opened, we lost our eye-sight. Besides ignorance in the mind, there is error and mistake; we do not judge rightly of things, we put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
Besides this, there is much pride, superciliousness and prejudice, and many fleshly reasonings. ‘How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?’

Original sin has defiled the heart

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In the heart are legions of lusts, obdurateness, infidelity, hypocrisy, sinful estuations; it boils as the sea with passion and revenge. ‘Madness is in their heart while they live.’ Eccl 9:9. The heart is, ‘the devil’s shop or workhouse,’ where all mischief is framed.

The will

Body of Practical Divinity (3. Original Sin)
The sinner crosses God’s will, to fulfil his own. There is a rooted enmity in the will against holiness; it is like an iron sinew, it refuses to bend to God. Where is then the freedom of the will, when it is so full not only of indisposition, but opposition to what is spiritual?

The affections

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These, as the strings of a viol, are out of tune. They are the lesser wheels, which are strongly carried by the will, the master-wheel. Our affections are set on wrong objects. Our love is set on sin, our joy on the creature. Our affections are naturally as a sick man’s appetite, who desires things which are noxious and hurtful to him; he calls for wine in a fever. So we have impure lustings instead of holy longings.
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