Displays articles in our confessions
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Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 4 – 10. Q. WILL GOD PERMIT SUCH DISOBEDIENCE AND REBELLION TO GO UNPUNISHED?
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Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 4 – 11. Q. BUT ISN’T GOD ALSO MERCIFUL?
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Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 5 – 12. Q. ACCORDING TO GOD’S RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT WE DESERVE PUNISHMENT BOTH IN THIS WORLD AND FOREVER AFTER: HOW THEN CAN WE ESCAPE THIS PUNISHMENT AND RETURN TO GOD’S FAVOR?
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Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 5 – 13. Q. CAN WE PAY THIS DEBT OURSELVES?
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Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 5 – 14. Q. CAN ANOTHER CREATURE-ANY AT ALL- PAY THIS DEBT FOR US?
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Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 5 – 15. Q. WHAT KIND OF MEDIATOR AND DELIVERER SHOULD WE LOOK FOR THEN?
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Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 6 – 16. Q. WHY MUST HE BE TRULY HUMAN AND TRULY RIGHTEOUS?
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Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 6 – 17. Q. WHY MUST HE ALSO BE TRUE GOD?
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Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 6 – 18. Q. AND WHO IS THIS MEDIATOR- TRUE GOD AND AT THE SAME TIME TRULY HUMAN AND TRULY RIGHTEOUS?
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Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 6 – 19. Q. HOW DO YOU COME TO KNOW THIS?
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Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 7 – 20. Q. ARE ALL MEN SAVED THROUGH CHRIST JUST AS ALL WERE LOST THROUGH ADAM?
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Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 7 – 21. Q. WHAT IS TRUE FAITH?
Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 4 – 10. Q. WILL GOD PERMIT SUCH DISOBEDIENCE AND REBELLION TO GO UNPUNISHED?
A. Certainly not. He is terribly angry about the sin we are born with as well as the sins we personally commit. As a just judge he punishes them now and in eternity.1 He has declared: “Cursed be every one who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, and do them.”2
Biblical References:
1 Ex. 34:7; Ps. 5:4-6; Nah. 1:2; Rom. 1:18; Eph. 5:6; Heb. 9:27
2 Gal. 3:10; Deut. 27:26
Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 4 – 11. Q. BUT ISN’T GOD ALSO MERCIFUL?
A. God is certainly merciful,1 but he is also just.2 His justice demands that sin, committed against his supreme majesty, be punished with the supreme penalty- eternal punishment of body and soul.3
Biblical References:
1 Ex. 34:6-7; Ps. 103:8-9
2 Ex. 34:7; Deut. 7:9-11; Ps. 5:4-6; Heb. 10:30-31
3 Matt. 25:35-46 PART II: MAN’S DELIVERANCE
Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 5 – 12. Q. ACCORDING TO GOD’S RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT WE DESERVE PUNISHMENT BOTH IN THIS WORLD AND FOREVER AFTER: HOW THEN CAN WE ESCAPE THIS PUNISHMENT AND RETURN TO GOD’S FAVOR?
A. God requires that his justice be satisfied.1 Therefore the claims of his justice must be paid in full, either by ourselves or by another.2
Biblical References:
1 Ex. 23:7; Rom. 2:1-11
2 Isa. 53:11; Rom. 8:3-4
Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 5 – 13. Q. CAN WE PAY THIS DEBT OURSELVES?
A. Certainly not. Actually, we increase our guilt every day.1
Biblical References:
1 Matt. 6:12; Rom. 2:4-5
Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 5 – 14. Q. CAN ANOTHER CREATURE-ANY AT ALL- PAY THIS DEBT FOR US?
A. No. To begin with, God will not punish another creature for man”s guilt.1 Besides, no mere creature can bear the weight of God”s eternal anger against sin and release others from it.2
Biblical References:
1 Ezek. 18:4, 20; Heb. 2:14-18
2 Ps. 49:7-9; 130:3
Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 5 – 15. Q. WHAT KIND OF MEDIATOR AND DELIVERER SHOULD WE LOOK FOR THEN?
A. He must be truly human1 and truly righteous,2 yet more powerful than all creatures, that is, he must also be true God.3
Biblical References:
1 Rom. 1:3; 1 Cor. 15:21; Heb. 2:17
2 Isa. 53:9; 2 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 7:26
3 Isa. 7:14; 9:6; Jer. 23:6; John 1:11
Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 6 – 16. Q. WHY MUST HE BE TRULY HUMAN AND TRULY RIGHTEOUS?
A. God”s justice demands it: man has sinned, man must pay for his sin,1 but a sinner can not pay for others.2
Biblical References:
1 Rom. 5:12, 15; 1 Cor. 15:21; Heb. 2:14-16
2 Heb. 7:26-27; 1 Pet. 3:18
Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 6 – 17. Q. WHY MUST HE ALSO BE TRUE GOD?
A. So that, by the power of his divinity, he might bear the weight of God”s anger in his humanity and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.1
Biblical References:
1 Isa. 53; John 3:16; 2 Cor. 5:21
Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 6 – 18. Q. AND WHO IS THIS MEDIATOR- TRUE GOD AND AT THE SAME TIME TRULY HUMAN AND TRULY RIGHTEOUS?
A. Our Lord Jesus Christ,1 who was given us to set us completely free and to make us right with God.2
Biblical References:
1 Matt. 1:21-23; Luke 2:11; 1 Tim. 2:5
2 1 Cor. 1:30
Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 6 – 19. Q. HOW DO YOU COME TO KNOW THIS?
A. The holy gospel tells me. God himself began to reveal the gospel already in Paradise;1 later, he proclaimed it by the holy patriarchs2 and prophets,3 and portrayed it by the sacrifices and other ceremonies of the law;4 finally, he fulfilled it through his own dear Son.5
Biblical References:
1 Gen. 3:15
2 Gen. 22:18; 49:10
3 Isa. 53; Jer. 23:5-6; Mic. 7:18-20; Acts 10:43; Heb. 1:1-2
4 Lev. 1-7; John 5:46; Heb. 10:1-10
5 Rom. 10:4; Gal. 4:4-5; Col. 2:17
Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 7 – 20. Q. ARE ALL MEN SAVED THROUGH CHRIST JUST AS ALL WERE LOST THROUGH ADAM?
A. No. Only those are saved who by true faith are grafted into Christ and accept all his blessings.1
Biblical References:
1 Matt. 7:14; John 3:16, 18, 36; Rom. 11:16-21
Heidelberg Catechism Lords Day 7 – 21. Q. WHAT IS TRUE FAITH?
A. True faith is not only a knowledge and conviction that everything God reveals in his Word is true;1 it is also a deep-rooted assurance,2 created in me by the Holy Spirit3 through the gospel,4 that, out of sheer grace earned for us by Christ,5 not only others, but I too,6 have had my sins forgiven, have been made forever right with God, and have been granted salvation.7
Biblical References:
1 John 17:3, 17; Heb. 11:1-3; James 2:19
2 Rom. 4:18-21; 5:1; 10:10; Heb. 4:14-16
3 Matt. 16:15-17; John 3:5; Acts 16:14
4 Rom. 1:16; 10:17; 1 Cor. 1:21
5 Rom. 3:21-26; Gal. 2:16; Eph. 2:8-10
6 Gal. 2:20
7 Rom. 1:17; Heb. 10:10