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{"content":[{"abbv":"wlc","answer":"The Scriptures make known what God is, the persons in the Godhead, his decrees, and the execution of his decrees.","citation":"WLC 6","long_citation":"Larger Catechism 6","name":"Larger Catechism","number":"6","prooftexts":{},"question":"What do the Scriptures make known of God?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"}],"content_with_prooftexts":[{"abbv":"wlc","answer":"The Scriptures make known what God is,<sup id='fnref:wlc1'><a href='#fn:wlc1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup> the persons in the Godhead,<sup id='fnref:wlc2'><a href='#fn:wlc2' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>2</a></sup> his decrees,<sup id='fnref:wlc3'><a href='#fn:wlc3' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>3</a></sup> and the execution of his decrees.<sup id='fnref:wlc4'><a href='#fn:wlc4' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>4</a></sup>","citation":"WLC 6","long_citation":"Larger Catechism 6","name":"Larger Catechism","number":"6","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 4:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43004024.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 34:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02034006.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> passed before him and proclaimed, “The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 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>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 40:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040018.01-3\">To whom then will you liken God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or what likeness compare with him?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 40:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040021.01-4\">Do you not know? Do you not hear?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Has it not been told you from the beginning?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?<br />\n It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;<br />\nwho stretches out the heavens like a curtain,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;<br />\n who brings princes to nothing,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 40:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040025.01-5\">To whom then will you compare me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I should be like him? says the Holy One.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 40:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040028.01-6\">Have you not known? Have you not heard?<br />\nThe <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is the everlasting God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the Creator of the ends of the earth.<br />\nHe does not faint or grow weary;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his understanding is unsearchable.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 11:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58011006.01-7\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","2":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 3:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003016.01-1\">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; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 6:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006004.01-2\">“Hear, O Israel: The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is one. You shall love the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 8:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46008004.01-3\">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.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 8:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46008006.01-4\">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>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">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,</span> <span class=\"woc\">teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 13:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47013014.01-6\">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","3":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 15:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015014.01-1\">Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44015018.01-2\"><span class=\"verse-num inline\" id=\"v44015018-2\">18 </span>known from of old.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 46:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23046009.01-3\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>remember the former things of old;<br />\nfor I am God, and there is no other;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am God, and there is none like me,<br />\n declaring the end from the beginning<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and from ancient times things not yet done,<br />\nsaying, ‘My counsel shall stand,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will accomplish all my purpose,’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","4":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 4:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44004027.01-1\">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, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"},"question":"What do the Scriptures make known of God?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"}],"feed":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title></title>\n\n</head>\n<body>\n<h5 class=\"header mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Larger Catechism</h5>\n<p class=\"question mb-0\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">Q <em>6.</em></span>\nWhat do the Scriptures make known of God?</p>\n<div class=\"answer\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><p style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"q\">A. </span> The Scriptures make known what God is,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc1\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup> the persons in the Godhead,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc2\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc2\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">2</a></sup> his decrees,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc3\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc3\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">3</a></sup> and the execution of his decrees.<sup id=\"fnref:wlc4\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc4\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">4</a></sup></p></div>\n\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">John 4:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p43004024.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.\u201d</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 34:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02034006.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> passed before him and proclaimed, \u201cThe <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 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.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 40:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040018.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">To whom then will you liken God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or what likeness compare with him?</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 40:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040021.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Do you not know? Do you not hear?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Has it not been told you from the beginning?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?\n It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;\nwho stretches out the heavens like a curtain,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;\n who brings princes to nothing,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 40:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040025.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">To whom then will you compare me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I should be like him? says the Holy One.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 40:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040028.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Have you not known? Have you not heard?\nThe <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is the everlasting God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the Creator of the ends of the earth.\nHe does not faint or grow weary;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his understanding is unsearchable.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Hebrews 11:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p58011006.01-7\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:2\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 3:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40003016.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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; and behold, a voice from heaven said, \u201cThis is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Deuteronomy 6:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p05006004.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cHear, O Israel: The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is one. You shall love the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 8:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46008004.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that \u201can idol has no real existence,\u201d and that \u201cthere is no God but one.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 8:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46008006.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 28:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40028019.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">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,</span> <span class=\"woc\">teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.\u201d</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Corinthians 13:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p47013014.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:3\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 15:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44015014.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 15:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44015018.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"verse-num inline\" id=\"v44015018-2\">18\u00a0</span>known from of old.\u2019</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 46:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23046009.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>remember the former things of old;\nfor I am God, and there is no other;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am God, and there is none like me,\n declaring the end from the beginning\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and from ancient times things not yet done,\nsaying, \u2018My counsel shall stand,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will accomplish all my purpose,\u2019 (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:4\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 4:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44004027.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","title":"What do the Scriptures make known of God?"}