Category: Confessions and Catechisms

Q. 16. How did God create angels?A. God created all the angels spirits, immortal, holy, excelling in knowledge, mighty in power, to execute his commandments, and to praise his name, yet subject to change. The Catechism properly discusses the angels first as they were of his first creation. Vos wrote...(we don’t commonly study about angels,… Continue reading WLC – Q. 16. How did God create angels?

Q. 15. What is the work of creation?A. The work of creation is that wherein God did in the beginning, by the word of his power, make of nothing the world, and all things therein, for himself, within the space of six days, and all very good. I think the Scriptures speak for themselves here.… Continue reading WLC – Q. 15. What is the work of creation?

Q. 14. How doth God execute his decrees?A. God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence, according to his infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of his own will. We will in the next questions look into each of these. Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,… Continue reading WLC – Q. 14. How doth God execute his decrees?

Q. 13. What hath God especially decreed concerning angels and men?A. God, by an eternal and immutable decree, out of his mere love, for the praise of his glorious grace, to be manifested in due time, hath elected some angels to glory; and in Christ hath chosen some men to eternal life, and the means… Continue reading WLC – Q. 13. What hath God especially decreed concerning angels and men?