Creation and the Fall: Why Christ Had to Die is the fourth poster in the Ad Crucem doctrine series. It maps the Lutheran doctrine of creation and the fall, showing that God made man good, male and female, in an order given before the fall, that Adam’s sin brought guilt and death on all, and that only the second Adam’s obedience and death could undo it. Read it from top to bottom: arrows run from a doctrine to the doctrines that rest on it. Remove a box and everything below it loses its ground.
“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.” 1 Corinthians 15:22
What the poster maps
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What the satisfaction presupposes about man: created good in God’s image; male and female in an order; the law written on the heart; Adam a real man and head of the race; the fall a real event; death through sin.
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The keystone of the series: the vicarious satisfaction, Christ’s active and passive obedience, offered to God and purchased with blood.
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Sin and the second Adam: original sin as guilt and corruption, the second Adam, infant baptism, and marriage as a picture of Christ and the church.
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The orders restored in Christ: parents and children, and the pastoral office given to men.
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Living in the orders: vocation in the household, the church and the state.
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The diagnosis, where the chain breaks: seven errors, from theistic evolution and Pelagianism to egalitarian readings of Genesis 3:16 and gender theory, each shown cutting the chain at the link it removes.
Every box carries its Scripture references and key citations from Graebner, Koontz, Scaer, the CTCR and the Lutheran Confessions. A study aid for pastors’ studies, classrooms, Bible classes and confirmation rooms.
Size: 12 × 36 inches.
Mix and match the doctrine series: any 2 posters for $58, any 3 for $68, or all 4 for $75, shipped together in one tube. The price drops automatically in your cart. The other posters in the series: What Rests on the Vicarious Satisfaction, Holy Scripture: It Testifies of Christ Jesus, The Person of Christ: True God and True Man for Us.