Catechesis

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Question 16

Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?

Scripture

  1. Acts 17:26 [1]
    And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, (ESV)
  2. 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)
  3. 1 Corinthians 15:21–22 [2]
    For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. (ESV)