Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Heidelberg Catechism: Lord's Day 3

3. Lord's Day

Q: 6. Did God then create man so wicked and perverse?
A: By no means; but God created man good, and after his own image, in true righteousness and holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love him and live with him in eternal happiness to glorify and praise him.

Q: 7. From where then proceeds this depravity of human nature?
A: From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise; hence our nature is become so corrupt, that we are all conceived and born in sin.

Q: 8. Are we then so corrupt that we are wholly incapable of doing any good, and inclined to all wickedness?
A: Indeed we are, except we are regenerated by the Spirit of God.

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Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud on their beds, let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hand, to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; to bind the kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron. Psalm 149:5-8