今日真道聖言/2014年8月20日

小要理問答

13問：我們的始祖持續在他們受造時的狀態中嗎？

答：我們的始祖因其自由意志，選擇犯罪得罪神，就從當初受造的狀態中墮落了。

13 Q. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?

A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.

大要理問答

21問：人是不是繼續活在當初上帝造人的景況中？

答：我們的先祖，受到撒但的試探，妄用他們自己意志的自由，吃了那禁果而背叛上帝的誡命；因此就從當初他們受造的無罪狀態中墮落了。

Q. 21. Did man continue in that estate wherein God at first created him?

A. Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, through the temptation of Satan, transgressed the commandment of God in eating the forbidden fruit; and thereby fell from the estate of innocency wherein they were created.

22 問：在亞當最初的過犯中，全人類是否都墮落了？

答：因為亞當是全人類的代表，所以，上帝與亞當所立的約，不只是為亞當自己，也是為了從他而出的所有後裔。因此，在亞當最初的過犯中，眾人都在他裏面與他一同犯罪，一同墮落了。

Q. 22. Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?

A. The covenant being made with Adam as a public person, not for himself only, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in that first transgression.

23問：墮落將人類帶入何種景況中？

答：墮落將人類帶入罪惡與悲慘的景況中。

Q. 23. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?

A. The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.

威斯敏斯特信條

6.1我們的始祖，因被撒但的詭計與試探所誘惑，就吃了禁果而犯罪。然而上帝願意按照祂的智慧與聖潔的計劃，為了彰顯自己的榮耀，就任憑他們犯下此罪。

6.2他們因犯此罪，失落了他們原先之正直，從與上帝相交的地位墮落了，於是死在罪中，並且靈魂和身體的各個部分與一切功能，都被全然玷污了。

6.3始祖既為全人類的根源，此罪咎就歸算給他們的後裔，並且罪中之死與敗壞本性，就傳給了他們按常例生出的所有後代子孫。