LORD’S DAY 3
6. Did God create man thus, wicked and perverse?
No,1Genesis 1:31 but God created man good and after His own image,2Genesis 1:26-27 that is, in righteousness and true holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love Him, and live with Him in eternal blessedness, to praise and glorify Him.32 Corinthians 3:18; Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 4:24
7. From where, then, comes this depraved nature of man?
From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise,4Genesis 3 (the whole chapter); Romans 5:12, 18-19 whereby our nature became so corrupt that we are all conceived and born in sin.5Psalm 51:5; 14:2-3
8. But are we so depraved, that we are wholly incapable of any good and prone to all evil?
Yes,6John 3:6; Genesis 6:5; Job 14:4; Isaiah 53:6 unless we are born again by the Spirit of God.7John 3:5; Genesis 8:21; 2 Corinthians 3:5; Romans 7:18; Jeremiah 17:9