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Luther on the Creation: A Critical and Devotional Commentary on Genesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

Martin Luther began this work in 1536 while he lectured at the University of Wittenberg, and finished it in 1545, just a few months before his death. In the first volume, Luther discusses how one should read the books of Moses and what readers should learn from them.

pure as they were originally created. This doctrine however detracts from the magnitude of original sin and is to be shunned as a deadly poison. We conclude therefore that original righteousness was not a superadded gift, which was bestowed from without, separate from the very nature of man; but a truly natural righteousness; so that it was the very nature of Adam to know God, to love God, to believe in God, to acknowledge God and to worship God, etc. These things were as natural in Adam, as it is
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