What is the proper way to describe the relationship between God, the Fall, and our corrupted souls? Why is the charge that "God creates us evil" illegitimate? I have some thoughts about this, but was hoping to clarify my thoughts.
The context for this question is that my father-in-law was listening (in disgust) to a rant by a "perfectionist" teacher and the teacher was saying, "Calvinists believe God creates man evil." The teacher's conception (I think) is that since the historic reformed position is that children are born with original sin, then we must believe God creates man evil.
The WCF says this about the topic:
Chapter VI
Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the Punishment thereof
III. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed; and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.
The context for this question is that my father-in-law was listening (in disgust) to a rant by a "perfectionist" teacher and the teacher was saying, "Calvinists believe God creates man evil." The teacher's conception (I think) is that since the historic reformed position is that children are born with original sin, then we must believe God creates man evil.
The WCF says this about the topic:
Chapter VI
Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the Punishment thereof
III. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed; and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.