article 3

1833

The New Hampshire Confession of Faith

TRANSLATED INTO CHEROKEE

ca. 1880 by unidentified translators

published in 1880 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma

III. Of the Fall of Man ᏴᏫ ᎡᎳᏗ ᏄᎵᏍᏔᏅᎢ

We believe that man was created in holiness, under the law of his Maker, but by

voluntary transgression fell from that holy and happy state; in consequence of which all

mankind are now sinners, not by constraint but choice; being by nature utterly void of

that holiness required by the law of God, positively inclined to evil; and therefore under

just condemnation to eternal ruin, without defense or excuse.

Gen.1:27; Gen.1:31; Ecc.7:29; Acts 17:26-29; Gen.2:16-17; Gen.3:6-24; Rom. 5:12;

Rom.5:15-19; Ps.51:5; Rom.8:7; Isa.53:6; Gen.6:12; Rom.3:9-18; Eph.2:1-3;

Rom.1:18,32; Rom.2:1-16; Gal.3:10; Matt. 20:15; Ezek. 18:19-20; Rom.1:20; Rom.3:19;

Gal. 3:22.