The Fall Of Man

Question 0

Who is his maker?

Answer 0

God.

Question 1

What is man?

Answer 1

He is a human being.

Question 2

How was he made?

Answer 2

In holiness.

Question 3

Of what does his Holiness consist?

Answer 3

His innocence.

Question 4

What are the component parts of which man is constituted?

Answer 4

Body and soul. Human and divine.

Question 5

In whose image was man made?

Answer 5

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 6

In what did the image consist?

Answer 6

Rationality and holiness.

Question 7

Did man maintain the image of God?

Answer 7

Only his rational image.

Question 8

What became of his holy image?

Answer 8

He lost it.

Question 9

How?

did he lose his holy image

Answer 9

By transgression.

Question 10

What do you mean by transgression?

Answer 10

Sin.

Question 11

What is sin?

Answer 11

Sin is the transgression of the law of God.

Question 12

What is the consequence of this sin?

Answer 12

Death.

Question 13

Death in what sense?

Answer 13

Death in every sense; physically, spiritually and eternally.

Question 14

How did Adam’s fall affect man?

Answer 14

All became sinners.
Rom 5:19 “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”

Question 15

Did Adam transgress the law by constraint?

Answer 15

No.

Question 16

How then?

Did Adam transgress the law

Answer 16

By choice.
Gen 2:16–17 “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden you may freely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die.”

Question 17

How was man responsible for his transgression?

Answer 17

Because he was made a free moral being.

Question 18

How many states has man passed through since his existence?

Answer 18

Three.

Question 19

What are they?

The states of man

Answer 19

His holy state, sinful state, and graceful state.

Question 20

Was expulsion from the Garden of Eden an act of mercy or an act of what?

Answer 20

It was an act of judgment.

Question 21

Why was it (expulsion from the Garden) an act of judgment?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What was the sentence pronounced upon him?

Answer 22

Death.

Question 23

Why can’t he be saved by law?

Answer 23

Because he is utterly void of the holiness required by the law of God.

Question 24

Can he offer any defense for his present condition?

Answer 24

No.

Question 25

Why not?

Can he offer any defense for his present condition?

Answer 25

Because he voluntarily transgressed the law.

Question 26

If salvation had not been offered through the Messianic Promise, what would have been his condition?

Answer 26

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 shall bruise his heel. “