Question 6. Did God then create man so wicked and perverse?
Answer. By no means, but God created man good, and after his own image (Gen 1:27)[1], in righteousness and true holiness (Eph 4:24)[2] that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love him (Col 3:10)[3] and live with him in eternal happiness, to glorify and praise him (Isa 43:7)[4].
Question 7. Whence then proceeds this depravity of human nature?
Answer. From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise (Rom 5:12)[5]; hence our nature is become so corrupt, that we are all conceived and born in sin (John 3:6)[6].
Question 8. Are we then so corrupt that we are wholly incapable of doing any good and inclined to all wickedness?
Answer. Indeed we are (Rom 7:18)[7]; except we are regenerated by the Spirit of God (John 3:3).[8]
[1] Gen 1:21
[2] Ecc 7:29
[3] 1 Chron 28:9; Rev 22:14
[4] Pro 16:4; 1 Cor 10:31; Ps 16:11
[5] 1 Cor 15:22; Matt 7:18; Gen 3:1-6
[6] Ps 51:5; 53:1; Rom 3:9-12; Job 14:4; Gen 8:21
[7] 2 Cor 3:5; Gen 6:5; Job 15:16
[8] John 3:5-6; Jer 13:23; Eph 2:4-5
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