Heidelberg Catechism · 1563

Q6. Did God, then, create man so wicked and perverse?

No, on the contrary, God created man good and in His image, that is, in true righteousness and holiness, so that he might rightly know God His Creator, heartily love Him, and live with Him in eternal blessedness to praise and glorify Him.
Answer · Heidelberg Catechism

Scripture proofs

  1. [1]
    Genesis 1:31

    And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

  2. [2]
    Genesis 1:26-27

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

  3. [3]
    Ephesians 4:24

    And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

  4. [4]
    Colossians 3:10

    And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

  5. [5]
    Psalms 8

    To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

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