Question 18 of 118
What is sin?
Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
Scripture proofs
- 1 John 3:4
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
- Romans 5:13
For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
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?
- Q16. What special act of providence did God exercise towards man, in the estate wherein he was created?
- Q17. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
- 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?