Ch 3 The fall of Man

Question 1

What is Man

Answer 1

man is a human being

Question 2

Who is his maker

Answer 2

His maker is God

Question 3

How was he made

Answer 3

Man was made in Holiness

Question 4

Of what does his holiness consist

Answer 4

His holiness consisted of his innocency

Question 5

What are the component parts of which man was constituted

Answer 5

The component parts of which man is constituted are Body and Soul - Human and Divine

Question 6

In whose image was man made

Answer 6

Man was made in God’s image Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them”

Question 7

In what did the image consist

Answer 7

The image consisted of rationality and holiness

Question 8

did man maintain the image of god

Answer 8

man only maintained God’s rational image

Question 9

What became of his holy image

Answer 9

He lost God’s holy image

Question 10

How?

Answer 10

By transgression

Question 11

What do you mean by by transgression?

Answer 11

by transgression i mean sin

Question 12

what is sin

Answer 12

Sin is the transgression of the law of God

Question 13

What is the consequence of this sin

Answer 13

The consequence of this sin is death

Question 14

death in what sense

Answer 14

Death in every sense physically, spiritually and eternally

Question 15

how did Adams sin affect mankind

Answer 15

Adams sin affected mankind in that all became sinners Rom 5:19 For as by one mans disobedience many where made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many many be made righteous.

Question 16

Did Adam transgress the Law by constraint

Answer 16

Adam did not sin by constraint.

Question 17

How then

Answer 17

But by choice Genesis 2:16-17 “And the lord God commanded the man saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of knowledge of good and eveil, thou shalt not eat of it: for the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surly die.”

Question 18

how was man responsible for his transgress?

Answer 18

Adam was responsible for his transgress because he was made a free moral being

Question 19

how many states has man passed through since his existence

Answer 19

Man has passed through three states since his existence

Question 20

what are they

Answer 20

They are his holy state, his sinful state and his graceful state

Question 21

was expulsion from the garden an act of mercy or an act of what

Answer 21

Expulsion from the garden was an act of mercy

Question 22

Why was it an act of mercy

Answer 22

Because if man had remained in the Garden of Eden he would have partaken of the tree of life, and perpetrated himself in his sinful state and would have put himself beyond the pales of redemption.

Question 23

what was the sentence pronounced upon him?

Answer 23

The sentence pronounced on him was death

Question 24

Why can he not be saved by the law

Answer 24

man cannot be saved by the law because he is utterly void of the holiness required by the law of God

Question 25

can he offer any defense for his present condition

Answer 25

man can offer no defense for his present condition

Question 26

why not

Answer 26

becuase he voluntarily transgressed the law

Question 27

If salvation had not been offered through the messianic promise, what would have been his condition

Answer 27

If salvation had not been offered through the Messianic promise, man’s state would have been eternal death Gen 3:15 And i will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel”