WSC 10
Westminster Shorter Catechism
Q10. How did God create man?
God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
Proof texts
- Gen. 1:26-28 — [26] Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. [28] And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
- Col. 3:10 — [10] and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
- Eph. 4:24 — [24] and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
For discussion
- The Assembly cited Gen. 1:26-28 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?
- WLC Q17 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?
- HC Q26 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?