Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, through the temptation of Satan, transgressed the commandment of God, in eating the forbidden fruit, and thereby fell from the estate of innocency wherein they were created.
Scripture proofs: Gen. 3:6-8, 13; Eccl. 7:29; 2 Cor. 11:3.
Source: The Constitution of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, updated 2026, B-4.