Catechesis

Keach's Catechism

Question 16

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

Scripture

  1. Genesis 2:16–17 [1]
    And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but 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.” (ESV)
  2. Galatians 3:12 [1]
    But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” (ESV)
  3. Romans 5:12 [1]
    Death in Adam, Life in Christ Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— (ESV)