Q.21. Did man continue in that estate wherein God at first created him?

A. Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, through the temptation of Satan, transgressed the commandment of God in eating the forbidden fruit; and thereby fell from the estate of innocency wherein they were created.[q]

[q] Gen. 3:6-8,13. Eccl. 7:29. 2 Cor. 11:3.

Q.22. Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?

A. The covenant being made with Adam as a publick person, not for himself only, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation,[r] sinned in him, and fell with him in that first transgression.[s]

[r] Acts 17:26.

[s] Gen. 2:16,17. Compared with Rom. 5:12-20 and with 1 Cor. 15:21,22.