1. Though rational creatures are responsible to obey God as their Creator, the distance between God and these creatures is so great that they could never have attained the reward of life except by God’s voluntary condescension. He has been pleased to express this through a covenant framework.11Luke ... Read More about Chapter 7 – God’s Covenant, 1689 LBCF
Chapter 6 – The Fall of Mankind, and Sin and Its Punishment, LBCF
1. God created humanity upright and perfect. He gave them a righteous law that would have led to life if they had kept it but threatened death if they broke it.1 Yet they did not remain for long in this position of honor. Satan used the craftiness of the serpent to seduce Eve, who then seduced ... Read More about Chapter 6 – The Fall of Mankind, and Sin and Its Punishment, LBCF
Chapter 5 – Divine Providence, 1689 LBCF
1. God the good Creator of all things, in his infinite power and wisdom, upholds, directs, arranges, and governs all creatures and things,1 from the greatest to the least,2 by his perfectly wise and holy providence, to the purpose for which they were created. He governs according to his infallible ... Read More about Chapter 5 – Divine Providence, 1689 LBCF
Chapter 4 – Creation, 1689 LBCF
1. In the beginning God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit1 was pleased to create or make the world and all things in it, both visible and invisible, in a six-day period, and all very good.2 He did this to manifest the glory of his eternal power, wisdom, and goodness.31John 1:2, 3; Hebrews ... Read More about Chapter 4 – Creation, 1689 LBCF
Chapter 3 – God’s Decree 1689 LBCF
1. From all eternity God decreed everything that occurs, without reference to anything outside himself.1 He did this by the perfectly wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably. Yet God did this in such a way that he is neither the author of sin nor has fellowship with any ... Read More about Chapter 3 – God’s Decree 1689 LBCF
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