Lord’s Day 3, Chapter 4: Total Depravity (1)

The last question and answer of this fourth Lord's Day of the Catechism is concerned with the extent of the depravity of the human nature. Our corruption as a fact was stated in Question 5: "I am prone to hate God and my neighbour." In the following two questions the problem of the origin of this corruption was discussed: it is not to be traced to creation, for God created us good and after His own image; but its cause must be found in the first sin of Adam and Eve in paradise. That sin was a...