IV. DOCTRINE OF MAN (Anthropology) and SIN (Harmartiology)
A. Creation
Adam and Eve were the literal, historical parents of the entire human race. The account in Genesis, Chapters 1 & 2, is historical, not mythical or allegorical. Hence, all evolutionary theories are contrary to the teaching of Scripture on creation.
B. Nature
1. The Scriptural teaching that man was created in the image of God does not infer that the essence of God is corporeal or that God has a body. Rather the image of God in man refers to his immaterial/spiritual aspects.
2. We hold that man is a unit made up of material and immaterial aspects, body and soul, corporeal and spiritual. Thus we hold to a dichotomist view of man and reject trichotomy as unscriptural having its origins not in Scripture, but in Greek philosophy.
Heb. 11:3; Ps. 33:6; Jer. 32:17; 1 Cor. 15:39; Gen. 2:7; Ecc. 12:7; Isa. 10:18; Matt. 10:28; Lk. 1:46-47; 8:55; 1 Cor. 5:5; 7:34; 2 Cor. 7:1; Rom. 8:10; Eph. 2:3; Col. 2:5.
C. Our first parents, Adam and Eve, by disobedience lost the original rightness and innocence with which they were created and became corrupt.
D. The imputation of Adam’s sin is immediately transmitted to all of his posterity. All men sinned in him, whether realistically or federally, and are guilty of that sin. As a result they are all under its consequence which is eternal condemnation. Adam is also the seminal head of all men (the human race) in that his corruption, which is a result of his fall, is transmitted to all men seminally and it becomes theirs.
E. We reject any form of the mediate transmission of Adam’s sin to his posterity. This view states that the guilt of Adam’s sin is not ours, because we did not sin in him, but only that his corruption becomes ours, which is caused by our first sin and guilt.
F. All persons are born in a sinful state and condition called original sin which consists of both the immediately imputed guilt and the seminally transmitted corruption of Adam’s first sin. We believe that the transmission of sin from parent to child is best explained in the traducian view of the origin of the soul rather than the creationist or pre-existence views. Through our parents both our material and immaterial parts, including the sinful nature, are transmitted from generation to generation.
G. From this corrupt nature proceeds all transgressions. All persons are wholly inclined to evil, and continually, and are opposed to all that is spiritually good in the sight of God. Their minds, understandings, wills, affections, emotions, and moral capacities are corrupted, along with having the judgment of death in their bodies. Therefore, although completely responsible and accountable to do so, man is unable of himself to repent of sin and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Evil does not have ontology, but is a privation, perversion and distortion of the good which has ontology. Evil affixes itself to the good as a parisite.
H. Because of the corrupt condition of man and original sin which is passed down to persons in their conception, we reject the theories of the “age of accountability”, “baptismal regeneration” and the “imputation of Christ’s righteousness” which grants heaven to any and every infant and child, without the absolute and necessary conscious personal exercise of faith in the Person and Work of Christ. We believe that those chosen by God for salvation are physically preserved until the time that they express personal saving faith in Christ.
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Gen. 3:11-13; Rom. 5:12-21; Gen. 6:5; Jer. 17:9; Rom. 3:10-18; 8: 6-8; Gen. 46:26 & Heb. 7:1-10; Gen. 5:3; Ps. 51:5; Acts 17:26; 1 Cor. 11:8; 1 Cor. 15:22; Eph. 1-2; 1Tim 2:4.
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