The Heidelberg Catechism

By Various

Question 9 Does not God then do injustice to man, by requiring from him in his law, that which he cannot perform?

Does not God then do injustice to man, by requiring from him in his law, that which he cannot perform?

Not at all; [30] for God made man capable of performing it; but man, by the instigation of the devil, [31] and his own wilful disobedience, [32] deprived himself and all his posterity of those divine gifts.