6. We believe that man is a sinner. We believe in the Genesis account of man's
creation, and that it is to be accepted literally (not allegorically or figuratively);
that man was originally created in God's image, after His likeness; that His
creation was a special creation by divine fiat, and not through evolutionary
processes of development from lower to higher forms.
We believe that man was created upright under the Law of his Maker; that he
by a willful act of disobedience fell from his original condition, in consequence
of which all mankind experiences its effects, that men as such, then, are sinners
by nature and by choice; that they are totally depraved and in their natural
state can do nothing to please God, nor can they save themselves from the just
condemnation of their sins, apart from the justifying grace of God.
Genesis 1:26-2:5
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon
the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is
upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of
a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every
thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every
green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested
on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he
had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were
created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of
the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the
earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have
sought out many inventions.
Psalm 51:5
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
John 3:19
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men
loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Romans 8:8
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Additional Scriptures:
Ephesians 2:8-9;
Ephesians 2:5;
Genesis 2:6-19;
Romans 5:1.
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