Lord's Day #3 Where Sin Came From

As part of our morning worship service we read and I make a few comments about the Lord's Day of the Heidelberg Catechism that corresponds to the week of the year.

Our hope for preserving these is they can provide some instruction for those who are learning the catechism and or wanting to understand them better. As I (Pastor Randy) listen to them...the first minute or two are often contextual for visitors and not always directly related.

Today's Lord's Day is where our sin and misery came from. Biblical Christianity can explain the origin of sin and ongoing affect in the world.

Lord’s Day 3
6. Did God create man thus, wicked and perverse?

No,1 but God created man good and after His own image,2 that is, in righteousness and true holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love Him, and live with Him in eternal blessedness, to praise and glorify Him.3

[1] Gen. 1:31. [2] Gen. 1:26–27. [3] 2 Cor. 3:18; Col. 3:10; Eph. 4:24.

7.   From where, then, does this depraved nature of man come?
   

From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise,1 whereby our nature became so corrupt that we are all conceived and born in sin.2

[1] Gen. 3 (The whole chapter). Rom. 5:12, 18–19. [2] Ps. 51:5; *Ps. 14:2–3.