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

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.[1]

1. Gen. 3:6-8

   So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
   
   And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

   
   Gen 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."

   
   Eccl. 7:29

   See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

   
   II Cor. 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.

Question 21, Westminster Larger Catechism.

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