Question 16 of 118
What special act of providence did God exercise towards man, in the estate wherein he was created?
When God had created man, He entered into a covenant of works with him, upon condition of perfect obedience, forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.
Scripture proofs
- Genesis 2:16-17
The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
- Galatians 3:12
The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”
- Romans 5:12
Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain).
More on creation and the fall
- Q13. What is the work of creation?
- Q14. How did God create man?
- Q15. What are God’s works of providence?
- Q17. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
- Q18. What is sin?
- Q19. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
- Q20. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
- Q21. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
- Q22. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereunto man fell?
- Q23. What is the misery of that estate whereunto man fell?