The main reliance for the support of the common theory of a miscreated mind is found in Genesis, chapters i. and v., which, it is claimed, teaches, in the first place, that God could and did create the first human pair with minds perfectly organized, and, next, that after they sinned, their descendants came into life with a depraved mental constitution. The passages read thus: Gen., i., 26, 27: "_And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.'_" "_So God created man in his own image; in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them._" Gen., v., 3: "_And Adam begat a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth._" The whole question in these passages turns on the meaning of the words "image" and "likeness." Now the only conceptions possible of the "image or likeness" of a human mind to its spiritual Creator are, first, resemblance in its constitutional powers of intellect, susceptibility, and will, and, next, resemblance in the _action_ of these faculties. That man is the image and likeness of his Maker in constitutional powers is clear, because we can not have any conception of the Creator but as of a mind like our own, infinite in the extent of such capacities. This, then, is _one_ respect in which the first pair could be in the image or likeness to God. The other only conceivable respect in which they could resemble their Creator is by _their own voluntary action, and this can not be conceived of as created_. Man is the sole producing cause (see page 158) of his own _voluntary_ acts, which alone decide moral character. Should God create these, man would cease to be their author and cease to be a free agent. It is thus manifest that a mind can be _created_ in the image of God, so far as we can conceive, only in its constitutional powers of intellect, susceptibility, and will. This being established as the meaning of the word when it is said that Adam begat Seth "in his own image," if it has reference to the mind alone, or chiefly, then it means that the mental organization of the child was like the parent's, and thus like the Creator's. In the New Testament, the chief passages which are supposed to bear on this subject are in Romans, chapter v. These are the main texts: Verse 12: "_Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned._" Verse 19: "_For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous._" Here we again are to discriminate between _facts_ and _theories_. The _facts_ here stated are, that by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; that death comes on all men because all sin; and that by one man's disobedience many were made sinners. Then come the _theories_ as to _the mode_ by which many were made sinners by the sin of one man.