Open Source Edition
arrow_rightPart One: The Profession of Faith
arrow_rightSection Two: The Creeds
arrow_rightChapter One: I Believe in God the Father
arrow_rightArticle 1. "I Believe in God The Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth"
arrow_rightParagraph 1. I Believe in God

In Brief

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“Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God is one LORD …”1. “The supreme being must be unique, without equal…. If God is not one, he is not God.”2

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Faith in God leads us to turn to him alone as our first origin and our ultimate goal, and neither to prefer anything to him nor to substitute anything for him.

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Even when he reveals himself, God remains a mystery beyond words: “If you understood him, it would not be God.”3

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The God of our faith has revealed himself as HE WHO IS; and he has made himself known as “abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.”4 God’s very being is Truth and Love.

Footnotes

  1. Dt 6:4; Mk 12:29.

  2. Tertullian, Adv. Marc., 1, 3, 5: PL 2, 274.

  3. St. Augustine, Sermo 52, 6, 16: PL 38, 360 and Sermo 117, 3, 5: PL 38, 663.

  4. Ex 34:6.