SD 6.1
Savoy Declaration
6.1. Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof
God having made a covenant of works and life, thereupon, with our first parents and all their posterity in them, they being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan did wilfully transgress the law of their creation, and break the covenant in eating the forbidden fruit.
Proof texts
- Gen. 3:13 — [13] Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
- 2 Cor. 11:3 — [3] But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
- Rom. 11:32 — [32] For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.
For discussion
- The Assembly cited Gen. 3:13 in support of this answer. Read it in context — how does it bear on what is claimed here?
- 3 passages are cited here. Which does the most work, and is anything claimed that the proofs do not obviously carry?
- WCF 6.1 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?