Questions 13-16 from the Westminster Shorter Catechism. For your Family Devotion today.

Q13: Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?

A13: Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.[1]
1. Eccl. 7:29

Q14: What is sin?

A14: Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.[1]
1. I John 3:4

Q15: What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?

A15: The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.[1]
1. Gen. 3:6-8

Q16: Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?

A16: The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity;[1] all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.[2]
1. Gen. 1:28; 2:16-172. Rom. 5:18