The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith Paragraph 4.2

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After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female,⁠¹⁠ with reasonable and immortal souls,⁠²⁠ rendering them fit unto that life to God for which they were created; being made after the image of God, in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness;⁠³⁠ having the law of God written in their hearts,⁠⁴⁠ and power to fulfill it, and yet under a possibility of transgressing, being left to the liberty of their own will, which was subject to change.⁠⁵⁠

expand_more [1] Genesis 1:27

expand_more [2] Genesis 2:7

expand_more [3] Ecclesiastes 7:29; Genesis 1; 26

expand_more [4] Romans 2:14–15

expand_more [5] Genesis 3:6

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God created man, male and female, with:

Fallen spirits

Reasonable and immortal souls

Hearts of stone

Transgressions and liberties

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