The Attributes of God (Belgic Confession 1b)
This article by Rev. Angus Stewart expounds on the first article of the Belgic Confession, focusing on God's attributes—particularly His simplicity, unity, and oneness—while contrasting Christian theism against atheism, dualism, polytheism, pantheism, and agnosticism. Stewart demonstrates how the Reformation confession provides a theologically precise and God-centered foundation for Reformed doctrine by grounding faith in the nature of the one true God.
Rev. Angus Stewart Belgic Confession 1: There Is One Only God We all believe with the heart, and confess with the mouth, that there is one only simple and spiritual Being, which we call God; and that he is eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, immutable, infinite, almighty, perfectly wise, just, good, and the overflowing fountain of all good. Our first instalment introduced the Belgic Confession and the second began our exposition of its first article emphasizing that the Belgic Confession is...