Q. 8. How doth God execute his decrees?

Q. 9. What is the work of creation?

Westminster Shorter Catechism Question 7:

Q. 7. What are the decrees of God?

Westminster Shorter Catechism Questions 5 and 6:

Q. 5. Are there more Gods than one?

Q. 6. How many persons are there in the godhead?

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Q. 4. What is God?

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Q. 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?

Q. 3. What do the Scriptures principally teach?

Westminster Shorter Catechism Question #1:

Q. 1. What is the chief end of man?

Introduction to the Westminster Shorter Catechism

God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the highest virtue. If you try to exalt yourself, you’re not loving anybody. Why? Because you’re distracting them from what will make them happy — God. You won’t make them happy. You’re quite unsatisfactory. God will make them happy. If you say, “Look at me, look at me, look at me,” you distract them from what will save them, give them life, and give them joy. But if God exalts himself, he’s not distracting you, he’s loving you. “Come to me, come to me, I’m everything you’ve ever wanted, come to me, be satisfied in me, enjoy me, treasure me.” If you say that, you’re an egomaniac. If God says it, He is Love.

-John Piper

Unless I am convinced by Scripture and by plain reason for I do not trust either in the Pope or councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves, I am bound by the Scriptures and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to go against conscience. Here I stand, I can do no other, May God help me.

- Martin Luther

[T]here is nothing in us or done by us at any stage of our earthly development because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake or we cannot ever be accepted at all. This is not true of us only “when we believe,” it is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be true as long as we live… It is always, on His “blood and righteousness” alone that we can rest. There is never anything that we are or have or do that can take His place or that take a place along with Him. We are always unworthy, and all that we have or do of good is always of pure grace. (B.B. Warfield)