Question 14: Did God make us unable to keep His law?
No, but because of the disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, all creation fell; we were all born in sin and guilt; we are inherently corrupt and cannot keep God’s law.
Therefore, as sin entered the world for a man, and death by sin, so death passed to all men, so all sinned.
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STAND ABRAHAM
I believe that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, with all its innumerable inhabitants; Finally, and nobly remarkable among all the surprisingly diverse productions of his supreme power and infinite talent, he created man and made him lord of this inferior world. Man and woman, he created them, in his image and likeness: rights, innocent and holy; able to serve and glorify its abundant creator.
In the same order, I believe, man did not stay long in these holy and happy circumstances, for, abandoned at his own will, he violated the law that his Creator and Sovereign had given him. state of guilt, depravity and ruin. How was he not only a natural leader, but also a federal leader and a representative of his unborn posterity, when he sinned, all his descendants sinned in him and fell with him, the guilt of his first Sin Blamed and corrupt nature is determined?to all who descend from it by natural generation. Therefore, all men are by nature children of anger contrary to all that is spiritually good, prone to evil; dead in sin, under the curse of the righteous law and enemies of eternal vengeance. From this complicated state of misery, there is deliverance only for Jesus Christ, the second Adam.
DAVID BISGROVE
Being a parent is a great window into the human condition. For example, I have to constantly remind and encourage my new children to say? and thanks? and share what they have. But I never have to encourage them to say “mine”! or grab things that are not their own, or hide toys so that others cannot find them. Now, where does this impetus come from? Here the Bible helps us because it gives us a vocabulary to express why we were born with this selfish disposition. When God created Adam and Eve, He created them in His own image. This means, among other things, that they reflected his goodness. God affirmed his goodness when he looked at his creation, including Adam and Eve, and said, “It is very good. ” Therefore, Adam and Eve had a perfect relationship with God. They could love and obey him perfectly. But then we are told that Satan tempted them with the lie that God was not good, that he cannot be trusted, that true freedom is outside of God and his law. When Adam believed and acted on this lie, Paul tells us in Romans 5, sin entered the world as a virus enters the body, infecting all of humanity afterward. That is why, from my first days and the first days of my children and, in the future, of their children, we all say: “It’s mine. “
Now, that doesn’t mean people are totally unerated. We were created in the image of God and that is why we can always do good and beautiful things. But sin has corrupted our ability to love and obey God with all our might. heart, strength and spirit. Sin has infected all our parts, so that we are all born into sin, guilty, corrupt by nature, unable to keep God’s law.
Let’s take an example. Imagine a hungry lion, and imagine placing two plates of food in front of it, a plate of raw red meat and a plate of perfectly cooked green beans, the lion can choose one or the other, but by its nature it always will. choose red meats.
When Adam sinned as our representative, our nature was enslaved to sin, so we neither desire nor seek God, but when Christ came, he was the second Adam, and where the first Adam failed, the second Adam was right. brought death by his disobedience and selfishness, the second Adam, Jesus Christ, brought life through his obedience and sacrifice on the cross.
Merciful Lord, we are corrupt by nature. We are sons and daughters of the first Adam, longing for all that you forbid; give us a new nature at birth again in Christ, the second Adam, so that we may keep your law in the power of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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