1695 Baptist Catechism · 1695

Q19. Did all Mankind fall in Adam's first Transgression?

The Covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his Posterity, all Mankind descending from him by ordinary Generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first Transgression.
Answer · 1695 Baptist Catechism

Scripture proofs

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    Genesis 2:16-17

    And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

    Romans 5:12

    Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

    1 Corinthians 15:21-22

    For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Proof texts as given in the original; verse text from the King James Version.