Doctrines Concerning

The origin, nature, and destiny of human beings

 

 

C. That man was created in innocency, as a free moral agent, equally capable of choosing to sin or
not to sin.

Gen 1:26 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.

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Ecc 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Jas 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

Personal Opinion:

This point I would have thought would be more easy to back up with scriptural references.  The ones given don't seem to grab me as pertinent.

The easiest thing for me to do would to put it on a to-do list in the back of my brain, but no, I'll get right at it.

On rereading the point, I will change my opinion of the citations and maybe add -

Gen 1:31 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.