Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?
Westminster Larger Catechism
Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?
Questions
Question 22


Westminster Larger Catechism
Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?
Questions
Question 22
Question
Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?
Answer
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,[1] sinned in him, and fell with him in that first transgression.[2]