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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: Article I: Of God.
Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of
the Council of Nicaea concerning the Unity of the Divine Essence
and concerning the Three Persons, is true and to be believed
without any doubting; that is to say, there is one Divine Essence
which is called and which is God: eternal, without body, without
parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the Maker and
Preserver of all things, visible and invisible; and yet there are
three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are
coeternal, the Father the Son, and the Holy Ghost. And the term
"person" they use as the Fathers have used it, to signify, not
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