Last week, we focused on the Passion and Resurrection of Christ. So this week, we will get back to the New City Catechism and examine the question and answer for last week and this week. The last several weeks have focused on the 10 Commandments, and this week we broaden our focus to the relationship of the Christian to the Law of God. 

Can anyone keep the law of God perfectly?

Since the fall, no mere human has been able to keep the law of God perfectly, but consistently breaks it in thought, word, and deed.

Romans 3:10–12

There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Did God create us unable to keep his law? 

No, but because of the disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, all of creation is fallen; we are all born in sin and guilt, corrupt in our nature and unable to keep God’s law.

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.

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