4 The Fall of Man

Article III: The Fall of Man

We believe that man was created in the image of God, before whom he walked in holiness and purity, but that by voluntary disobedience and transgression, he fell from the Eden of purity and innocence to the depths of sin and iniquity, and that in consequence of this, all mankind are sinners sold unto Satan, sinners not by constraint but by choice, shapen in iniquity and utterly void by nature of that holiness required by the law of God, positively inclined to evil, guilty and without excuse, justly deserving the condemnation of a just and holy God. (Gn. 1:27; Rom. 5:12, 19; Jn.3:6; Ps. 51:5; Rom. 5:15-19; 8:7; Is. 53:6; Gen 6:12; 3:9-19; Eph. 2:3; Rom. 1:18, 32; 2:1-16; Mt. 20:15; Gal. 3:10; Ez.18:19, 20; Rom. 1:20; Rom. 3:19; Gal. 3:22)