Westminster Larger Catechism: Q6




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Summary: <p><em>What do the Scriptures make known of God?</em></p><p>A. The Scriptures make known what God is, the persons in the Godhead, his decrees, and the execution of his decrees.</p><br><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Exod%2034.6%E2%80%937" target="_blank">Exodus 34:6–7</a></p><p>6 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”</p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Deut%206.4%E2%80%936" target="_blank">Deuteronomy 6:4–6</a></p><p>4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.</p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Isa%2040.18%E2%80%9328" target="_blank">Isaiah 40:18–28</a></p><p>18 To whom then will you liken God,</p><p>or what likeness compare with him?</p><p>19 An idol! A craftsman casts it,</p><p>and a goldsmith overlays it with gold</p><p>and casts for it silver chains.</p><p>20 He who is too impoverished for an offering</p><p>chooses wood that will not rot;</p><p>he seeks out a skillful craftsman</p><p>to set up an idol that will not move.</p><p>21 Do you not know? Do you not hear?</p><p>Has it not been told you from the beginning?</p><p>Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?</p><p>22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,</p><p>and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;</p><p>who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,</p><p>and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;</p><p>23 who brings princes to nothing,</p><p>and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.</p><p>24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,</p><p>scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,</p><p>when he blows on them, and they wither,</p><p>and the tempest carries them off like stubble.</p><p>25 To whom then will you compare me,</p><p>that I should be like him? says the Holy One.</p><p>26 Lift up your eyes on high and see:</p><p>who created these?</p><p>He who brings out their host by number,</p><p>calling them all by name;</p><p>by the greatness of his might</p><p>and because he is strong in power,</p><p>not one is missing.</p><p>27 Why do you say, O Jacob,</p><p>and speak, O Israel,</p><p>“My way is hidden from the LORD,</p><p>and my right is disregarded by my God”?</p><p>28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?</p><p>The LORD is the everlasting God,</p><p>the Creator of the ends of the earth.</p><p>He does not faint or grow weary;</p><p>his understanding is unsearchable.</p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Isa%2046.9%E2%80%9310" target="_blank">Isaiah 46:9–10</a></p><p>9 remember the former things of old;</p><p>for I am God, and there is no other;</p><p>I am God, and there is none like me,</p><p>10 declaring the end from the beginning</p><p>and from ancient times things not yet done,</p><p>saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,</p><p>and I will accomplish all my purpose,’</p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matt%203.16%E2%80%9317" target="_blank">Matthew 3:16–17</a></p><p>16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”</p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matt%2028.18%E2%80%9320" target="_blank">Matthew 28:18–20</a></p><p>18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”</p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/John%204.24" target="_blank">John 4:24</a></p><p>24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”</p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Acts%204.27%E2%80%9328" target="_blank">Acts 4:27–28</a></p><p>27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whateveryour hand and your plan had predestined to take place.</p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Acts%2015.14%E2%80%9318" target="_blank">Acts 15:14–18</a></p><p>14 Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. 15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,</p><p>16 “ ‘After this I will return,</p><p>and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen;</p><p>I will rebuild its ruins,</p><p>and I will restore it,</p><p>17 that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord,</p><p>and all the Gentiles who are called by my name,</p><p>says the Lord, who makes these things 18 known from of old.’</p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/1%20Cor%208.4%E2%80%936" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 8:4–6</a></p><p>4 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” 5 For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.</p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/2%20Cor%2013.14" target="_blank">2 Corinthians 13:14</a></p><p>14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.</p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Heb%2011.6" target="_blank">Hebrews 11:6</a></p><p>6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.</p>