5. Q. Can you keep all {the law} this perfectly?

A. No, I have a natural tendency to hate God and my neighbor.

6 Q. Did God create people so wicked and perverse?

A. No. God created them good and in his own image,

that is, in true righteousness and holiness, so that they might

truly know God their creator, love him with all their heart,

and live with God in eternal happiness, to praise and glorify him.

7. Q. From where, then, did man’s depraved nature come?

A. From the fall and disobedience of our first parents,

Adam and Eve, in Paradise, for there our nature became so corrupt

that we are all conceived and born in sin.

 

(Sin distorts the image of God imprinted on each of us.)