Catechesis

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Question 12

What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was caeated?

Scripture

  1. Genesis 2:17 [1]
    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. Romans 5:12–14 [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—for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. (ESV)
  3. Romans 10:5 [1]
    The Message of Salvation to All For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. (ESV)
  4. Luke 10:25–28 [1]
    The Parable of the Good Samaritan And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” (ESV)
  5. Genesis 2:17 [2]
    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)