Confession of Faith
Chapter 6: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof
Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit.1 This their sin, God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.2
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Genesis 3:13
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 Corinthians 11:3
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. (ESV)
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Romans 11:32
For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all. (ESV)
