024. QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 9.

QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 9.

1. In what place is the history of the fall of man recorded?

2. What is the substance of the Mosaic account of the transaction?

3. Is this to be understood literally or allegorically?

4. What two facts are given in evidence of the literal interpretation?

5. Was it possible for God to have prevented the Fall?

6. How can we reconcile it with his goodness that he did not prevent it?

7. Could he have prevented its possibility without destroying the free agency of man?

8. How may it be shown that the possibility of apostasy is essential to the character of a moral agent?

9. What objection has been made to the divine administration from the nature of the prohibition?

10. What is the distinction between a moral and a positive precept?

11. May we certainly know that a positive precept is not founded on reason?

12. Upon what is our obligation to obey founded?

13. Why does it appear that a positive precept is the best test of obedience?

14. How may the propriety of the law given to Adam as a test of obedience be argued from its simplicity?

15. Wherein does it appear that it was presented in mercy?

16. How could God, consistently with his mercy, permit man to be tempted?

17. What was probably the difference between the temptation of man and that of the fallen angels?

18. What was the prime agent in the seduction of man?

19. Could the serpent have uttered articulate sounds? What was probably the original form of the serpent?

20. What objection has been raised in reference to the penalty of the law?

21. How does it appear that the first sin was not a trivial offense?

22. What was the prime object in affixing the penalty to the law?

23. Can you fix the precise date of the Fall?

24. Is it probable that Adam continued long in his pristine state?