We Believe In One God
[Nicene Creed 1.1]
Our faith is in God who created heaven and earth, who formed us from dust and breathed us into life, who made us to live with one another in love. Our faith in God is far more than generalized belief in an abstract deity. We trust in God who loved us and sought us even when we chose sin and death rather than communion and life. We are loyal to God who established a covenant with us through Abraham and Sarah, who revealed the shape of faithful living in the Law given through Moses, and who called us to obedience through the cries of the prophets.
Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve the Lord with gladness and come before God's presence with a song. Know this: The Lord alone is God; we belong to the Lord, who made us. [Psalm 100:1-3]
God is known to us only through self-disclosure in words and acts of grace, love, and communion. While complete knowledge of God remains beyond human capacity, and human attempts to imagine the divine nature easily become reflections of our own desires or fears, God has revealed the truth to us in the One who is the Truth. God is most fully known to us through God's free presence with us in Jesus Christ.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth. . . . No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known. [John 1:1, 14, 18]
Thus we join with the church throughout the centuries to affirm that God was in Christ. God is not a mysterious unknown who remains veiled in remote transcendence. God has come among us in terms we can understand, in the human one, Jesus of Nazareth.
The one sufficient revelation of God is Jesus Christ, the Word of God incarnate, to whom the Holy Spirit bears unique and authoritative witness through the Holy Scriptures, which are received and obeyed as the word of God written. [The Confession of 1967, 9.27]
