Lord's Day 3 The problems of this world are not God's creation but from sin

The problems of this world are not God’s creation but they are consequences of our disobedience.

1. God’s wonderful work of creation
2. our disastrous deformation
3. our need for reformation

Introduction:
1 Christians are often asked to pray for different people in different circumstances. (Why) should we pray for
(unbelieving) victims of natural disasters and other things that go wrong?
Point 1:
2 God created man good: what does this really mean? (Good soup; good dog; good light; good person: what
is ‘good’?)
3 Why is it important for us to know that God created Adam and Eve ‘good’? What does that prove?
Point 2:
4 How did God punish Adam and Eve’s sin? Does the punishment fit the crime?
5 How do we defend God against the accusation that God is unfair?
Point 3:
6 How does Answer 8 of the Catechism evaluate us? How good (or bad) are we?
7 Answer 8 gives us hope by focussing our attention on a point of comparison or similarity: what hope does
the catechism offer?