Date: Aug. 11, 2026
Question
What did God’s providence specifically do for man whom He created?
Answer
After the creation God made a covenant with man to give him life, if he perfectly obeyed; God told him not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil or he would die.
Reference Passages
Genesis
2:16-17
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Galatians
3:12
But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”
James
2:10
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
