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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: This portrays and sets forth most briefly what is the essence, will,
activity, and work of God the Father. For since the Ten Commandments
have taught that we are to have not more than one God, the question
might be asked, What kind of a person is God? What does He do? How can
we praise or portray and describe Him, that He may be known? Now, that
is taught in this and in the following article, so that the Creed is
nothing else than the answer and confession of Christians arranged with
respect to the First Commandment. As if you were to ask a little child:
My dear, what sort of a God have you? What do you know of Him? he could
say: This is my God: first, the Father, who has created heaven and
earth; besides this only One I regard nothing else as God; for there is
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