Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 12
What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?
When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life 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.
Scripture proofs King James Version
- Gal. 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
- Gen. 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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- Westminster Shorter Catechism
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- King James Version (Scripture proofs)
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- First published 1648
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- Public domain.
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Cite as Westminster Shorter Catechism. First published 1648.