21问：始祖是否一直处于原初受造时的地位上？

答：我们的始祖既按所赋予之自由意识，在撒但的诱惑下，吃了禁果，违背了上帝的诫命，就从原初被造时天真无邪的地位上堕落了（创3:6－8，13；传7:29；林后11:3）。

Question 21: Did man continue in that estate wherein God at first created him?

Answer: 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.