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The Westminster Confession of Faith, or simply the Westminster Confession, is a Reformed confession of faith.Drawn up by the 1646 Westminster Assembly as part of the Westminster Standards to be a confession of the Church of England, it became and remains the "subordinate standard" of doctrine in the Church of Scotland and has been influential within Presbyterian churches worldwide.
God's sovereignty, as the right to exercise his ruling power over his creation, is contingent upon his creation. God's sovereignty only takes effect once creation exists for it to be expressed upon. If the sovereignty of God is considered one of his attributes, it is a temporal one. [9]
The Westminster Confession of Faith also teaches (in Hodge's words "clearly impl[ies]") the infralapsarian [96] view, but is sensitive to those holding to supralapsarianism. [97] The Lapsarian controversy has a few vocal proponents on each side today, but overall it does not receive much attention among modern Calvinists.
The Confession starts with the doctrine of revelation, or how people can know about God. [92] The divines believed knowledge of God was available to people through nature as well as the Bible, but they also believed that the Bible, or Scripture, is the only way in which people attain saving knowledge of God. [93]
The Westminster Confession and catechisms were produced by a committee rather than a single author. Scots Confession (1560) [6] Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) [7] Confession of Faith Ratification Act (1690) Confession of 1967 [8] Brief Statement of Faith (1991) [9]
The Westminster Standards is a collective name for the documents drawn up by the Westminster Assembly (1643–1649). These include the Westminster Confession of Faith , the Westminster Shorter Catechism , the Westminster Larger Catechism , the Directory of Public Worship , and the Form of Church Government , [ 1 ] and represent the doctrine and ...
The synod also clarified its understanding of chapters 20 and 23 of the Westminster Confession, which dealt with the relationship between church and state. The synod affirmed their belief in religious liberty and the independence of the church from government interference, declaring that it did "not receive those articles in any such sense as ...
The Westminster Shorter Catechism's definition of God is an enumeration of his attributes: "God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth." [6] This answer has been criticised, however, as having "nothing specifically Christian about it."