I – DAILY FAMILY WORSHIP FROM ADAM TO NOAH
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However, continued Kuyper,31 "maintaining the approved doctrine of Adam's original righteousness as inherent in his nature, and of the divine image as being in-created – an important question arises. Was the fellowship of the Holy Spirit enjoyed by Adam the same as that possessed now by the new-born soul?"
Here Kuyper answers: "In Adam, all goodness was wrought by the Holy Spirit – according to the holy ordinance which assigns to the Third Person in the Trinity the inward operation of all rational beings…. With Adam, his nature was created and calculated to be a vehicle of the Holy Spirit's operations. Hence, Adam and the regenerated are similar in this respect – that in both there is no goodness not wrought by the Holy Spirit."
