Introduction: The ‘Why’ of Our Confessions

We have thus far raised the question, “What are Confessions?” And we have briefly answered this question by pointing out that Confessions are the concise and systematic expression of that which the church believes to be the truth of the Word of God. Our confessions express the contents of our Protestant Reformed faith. We will continue this preliminary discussion by introducing a few more questions before we begin to treat the content of the Confession of Faith. Our second question is: (2)...