Questions 11-20 Flashcards
Q.11
What is God’s providence?
God’s providence is His completely holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing every creature and every action.
Q.12
What did God’s providence specifically do for man whom He created?
After the creation God made a covenant with man to give him life, if he perfectly obeyed; God told him not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil or he would die.
Q.13
Did our first parents remain as they were created?
Left to the freedom of their own wills, our first parents sinned against God and fell from their original condition.
Q.14
What is sin?
Sin is disobeying or not conforming to God’s law in any way.
Q.15
By what sin did our first parents fall from their original condition?
Our first parents’ sin was eating the forbidden fruit.
Q.16
Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first disobedience?
Since the covenant was made not only for Adam but also for his natural descendants, all mankind sinned in him and fell with him in his first disobedience.
Q.17
What happened to man in the fall?
A.17
Man fell into a condition of sin and misery.
Q.18
What is sinful about man’s sinful condition?
The sinfulness of that fallen condition is twofold. First, in what is commonly called original sin, there is the guilt of Adam’s first sin with it’s lack of original righteousness and the corruption of his whole nature. Second are all the specific acts of disobedience that come from original sin.
Q.19
What is the misery of man’s fallen condition?
By their fall all mankind lost fellowship with God and brought His anger and curse on themselves. They are therefore subject to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.
Q.20
Did God leave all mankind to die in sin and misery?
From all eternity and merely because it pleased Him God chose some to have everlasting life. These He freed from sin and misery by a covenant of grace and brought them to salvation by a redeemer.
