Shall all men die?

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 2:27PM
rebecca in Westminster Catechism

Death being threatened as the wages of sin,[1] it is appointed unto all men once to die;[2] for that all have sinned.[3]

1. Rom. 6:23

   For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2. Heb. 9:27

   And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment….

3. Rom. 5:12

   Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned….

Question 84, Westminster Larger Catechism

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