3C: Heidelberg Catechism: Why do We Call Jesus God’s Only Begotten Son and Lord?

Q. 33. Why is Christ called the “only begotten Son” of God, since we are also the children of God?
A. Because Christ alone is the eternal and natural Son of God; [a] but we are children adopted of God, by grace, for his sake. [b]
 
Q. 34. Wherefore callest thou him “our Lord”?
A. Because he hath [...]

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3C: WLC on Providence

WLC: God’s Works of Providence
Q. 18. What are God’s works of providence?
A. God’s works of providence are his most holy,[69] wise,[70] and powerful preserving[71] and governing[72] all his creatures; ordering them, and all their actions,[73] to his own glory.[74]
 
Q. 19. What is God’s providence towards the angels?
A. God by his providence permitted some of the [...]

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3C:WLC – God’s Works of Providence

 
WLC: God’s Works of Providence
Q. 18. What are God’s works of providence?
A. God’s works of providence are his most holy,[69] wise,[70] and powerful preserving[71] and governing[72] all his creatures; ordering them, and all their actions,[73] to his own glory.[74]
Q. 19. What is God’s providence towards the angels?
A. God by his providence permitted some of the [...]

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3: WSC – Creation

 
Shorter Catechism, week 4
 
Q. 9. What is the work of creation?
A. The work of creation is, God’s making all things of nothing, by the word of his power,[24] in the space of six days, and all very good.[25]
 
Q. 10. How did God create man?
A. God created man male and female, after his own image,[26] in [...]

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3C: BC – The Trinity

 
Belgic Confession  – The Trinity
In keeping with this truth and Word of God we believe in one God, who is one single essence, in whom there are three persons, really, truly, and eternally distinct according to their incommunicable properties– namely, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Father is the cause, origin, and source of all [...]

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Creeds, Confessions Cate… BC 7: The Sufficency of Scripture

 
Belgic Confession Article 7: The Sufficiency of Scripture
We believe that this Holy Scripture contains the will of God completely and that everything one must believe to be saved is sufficiently taught in it. For since the entire manner of service which God requires of us is described in it at great length, no one– even [...]

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Creeds, Confessions, Cat…. WCF: Of God’s Eternal Decree

 
 Westminster Confession: Of God’s Eternal Decree
1: God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass;[65] yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin,[66]nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or [...]

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Canons of Dort: Elect or Not?

Divine Election and Reprobation
Article 7: Election
Election [or choosing] is God’s unchangeable purpose by which he did the following:
Before the foundation of the world, by sheer grace, according to the free good pleasure of his will, he chose in Christ to salvation a definite number of particular people out of the entire human race, which had [...]

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Westminster Confession on the Trinity

Chapter 2: Of God, and of the Holy Trinity
1: There is but one only,[25] living, and true God,[26] who is infinite in being and perfection,[27] a most pure spirit,[28] invisible,[29] without body, parts,[30] or passions;[31] immutable,[32] immense,[33] eternal,[34] incomprehensible,[35] almighty,[36] most wise,[37] most holy,[38] most free,[39] most absolute;[40] working all things according to the counsel [...]

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Children’s Catechism: The Bible, Adam and Eve

Children’s Catechism
 
Q. 14. Where do you learn how to love and obey God?
A. In the Bible alone.
Q. 15. Who wrote the Bible?
A. Holy men who were taught by the Holy Spirit.
Q. 16. Who were our first parents?
A. Adam and Eve.
Q. 17. Of what were our first parents made?
A. God made the body of Adam out [...]

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