WSC 12

Q12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?

When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.

Proof texts

• Gal. 3:12 — [12] But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”
• Gen. 2:17 — [17] but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

For discussion

1. The Assembly cited Gal. 3:12 in support of this answer. Read it in context — how does it bear on what is claimed here?
2. 2 passages are cited here. Which does the most work, and is anything claimed that the proofs do not obviously carry?
3. WLC Q19 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?
4. WLC Q20 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?

Read alongside

WLC Q19 · WLC Q20 · HC Q26 · HC Q27 · HC Q28 · BC 3.1 · BC 3.2