Question 16

Modern Adaptation

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Scriptural References

Genesis 2:16-17 (ESV)

¹⁶And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, ¹⁷but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Galatians 3:12 (ESV)

¹²But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”

Romans 5:12 (ESV)

¹²Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Traditional Formulation

Question: What special act of providence did God exercise towards man, in the estate wherein he was created?

Answer: 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.

Adaptation Commentary

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