Question 16

Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?

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The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity;1 all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.2

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1. Acts 17:26. And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.

2. Genesis 2:17. 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.
   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.

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