The 1925 Baptist Faith and Message

• Preamble to the 1925 Baptist Faith and Message
• I. The Scriptures
• II. God
• III. The Fall of Man
• IV. The Way of Salvation
• V. Justification
• VI. The Freeness of Salvation
• VII. Regeneration
• VIII. Repentance and Faith
• IX. God's Purpose of Grace
• X. Sanctification
• XI. Perseverance
• XII. The Gospel Church
• XIII. Baptism and the Lord's Supper
• XIV. The Lord's Day
• XXV. The Kingdom
• XV. The Righteous and the Wicked
• XVI. The Resurrection
• XVII. The Return of the Lord
• XXIII. Evangelism and Missions
• XX. Education
• XXIV. Stewardship
• XXII. Co-Operation
• XXI. Social Service
• XIX. Peace and War
• XVIII. Religious Liberty
• Adopted Resolution

III. The Fall of Man

Man was created by the special act of God, as recorded in Genesis. "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Gen. 1:27). "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul" (Gen. 2:7).

He was created in a state of holiness under the law of his Maker, but, through the temptation of Satan, he transgressed the command of God and fell from his original holiness and righteousness; whereby his posterity inherit a nature corrupt and in bondage to sin, are under condemnation, and as soon as they are capable of moral action, become actual transgressors.

Gen. 1:27; Gen. 2:7; John 1:23; Gen. 3:4-7; Gen. 3:22-24; Rom. 5:12,14,19, 21; Rom. 7:23-25; Rom. 11:18,22,32-33; Col. 1:21.