OCCUPATION OF EVIL ANGELS § 67. The evil angels, being since their fall enemies of God and of His children,1 are under their princes2 ever bent upon destroying the works of God,3 counteracting His purposes,4 doing and promoting evil,5 and, …
Category: 1 OUTLINES IN DOCTRINAL THEOLOGY
ANTHROPOLOGY – 68 – Creation of Man
CREATION OF MAN § 68. On the sixth day of creation1 God created man2 in His image,3 forming the body of one mature male,4 Adam, of the dust of the earth5 and breathing into his nostrils the breath of life,6 …
69 – Nature of Man
NATURE OF MAN § 69. Man, as created by his Maker, was an intelligent1 and moral2 being, consisting of body and soul3 united in one complete person.4 1. Man, as created by his Maker, was an intelligent Genesis 2:19–20 And …
70 – Primeval State of Man
PRIMEVAL STATE OF MAN § 70. In his original state, man was not only sound in body and soul, without a germ of disease or death,1 or a taint of sin,2 but endowed with concreated3 spiritual wisdom and knowledge,4 and …
71 – Propagation
PROPAGATION § 71. The two human persons whom God made in the beginning, one man and one woman, were thus created and joined in wedlock by the Creator1 with a view to the preservation and propagation of the human race …
72 – Fall of Man
FALL OF MAN § 72. Before the conception of their first offspring,1 our first parents, Eve tempted by Satan,2 and Adam, voluntarily transgressed a commandment of God,3 and by this sin they fell from their primeval state,4 lost the image …
73 – Hereditary Guilt and Sin
HEREDITARY GUILT AND SIN § 73. Not only was the guilt of Adam imputed to his descendants,1 but his children and children’s children have inherited from their first ancestor his corrupt nature,2 being flesh born of the flesh,3 wholly …
74 – Actual Sins
ACTUAL SINS § 74. Original sin, or the natural depravity of man, is productive of manifold actual sins,1 both of commission2 of that which God forbids, and of omission3 of that which God demands, internal4 and external5 sins, voluntary6 and …
75 – State of Wrath
STATE OF WRATH § 75. Inasmuch as God neither was the cause of Adam’s sin,1 nor is the cause of man’s original sin or actual sins,2 nor of his inability to work his own regeneration,3 all the children of Adam …
76 – The law
THE LAW § 76. To convince the sinner of his innate sinfulness and of his manifold offenses against the holy will of God,1 of the guilt2 incurred by original and actual sin, and of the righteous wrath of God,3 is, …