How Adam Broke Each of The 10 Commandments

Butner (Christological Dogmatics, 104) follows Edward Fisher (Marrow of Divinity, 36) in showing how Adam broke each of the commandments.

 

Adam:

 

(1) Treated the Devil as God

 

(2) Idolized his stomach

 

(3) Bore God’s name in vain by failing to believe and worship God rightly

 

(4) Did not rest in his assigned estate and therefore violated the spiritual significance of the sabbath

 

(5) Did not honour God his Father

 

(6) Committed self-murder since when he ate the fruit he would surely die and he caused the death of all his progeny

 

(7) Committed spiritual fornication being unfaithful to his relationship with God

 

(8) Stole the fruit

 

(9) Bore false testimony against God by treating him as a mean liar

 

(10) Coveted the fruit, knowledge of good and evil, and the status of God