Heidelberg Catechism.
neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Love is the fulfilling of the law. Rom 13, 10.
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Lev. 19, 18.
QUESTION 5.
Canst thou keep all this perfectly?
ANSWER.
No: for I am by nature prone to hate God and my neighbor.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Rom. 8, 7.
QUESTION 6.
Did God create man thus wicked and perverse?
ANSWER.
No, but God created man good, and after His own image, that is, in righteousness and true holiness; that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love Him, and live with Him in eternal blessedness, to praise and glorify Him.
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