Article 1. There is one God the Father ever-living, omnipresent, omniscient, almighty, the maker of heaven and earth, and one Mediator between God and Man the Messiah Jesus.
Article 2. The Father is the invisible God whom no eye has seen or can see, all other beings are sometimes visible.
Article 3. The Father has life in Himself and has given the son to have life in himself.
Article 4. The Father is omniscient and has all knowledge originally in His own breast and communicates knowledge of future things to Jesus the Messiah and none in heaven or earth or under the earth is worthy to receive knowledge of future things immediately from the father except the Lamb. And therefore, the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy and Jesus is the Word or Prophet of God.
Article 5. The Father is immoveable no place being capable of becoming emptier or fuller of Him then it is by the eternal necessity of nature: all other being are moveable from place to place.
Article 6. All the worship (whether of prayer praise or thanksgiving) which was due to the father before the coming of the Messiah is still due to him. The Messiah came not to diminish the worship of his Father.
Article 7. Prayers are most prevalent when directed to the Father in the name of the son.
Article 8. We are to return thanks to the Father alone for creating us and giving us food and raiment and other blessings of this life and whatsoever we are to thank Him for or desire that He would do for us we ask of Him immediately in the name of the Messiah.
Article 9. We need not pray to the Messiah to intercede for us. If we pray the Father aright He will intercede.
Article 10. It is not necessary to salvation to direct our prayers to any other than the Father in the name of the Son.
Article 11. To give the name of God to Angels or Kings is not against the first commandment. To give the worship of the God of the Jews to Angels or Kings is against it. The meaning of the commandment is You shalt worship no other gods but me.
Article 12. To us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we of him, and one Lord Jesus the Messiah because of whom are all things and we because of him. That is, we are to worship the Father alone as God Almighty and Jesus alone as the Lord the Messiah, the great King, the Lamb of God who was slain and has redeemed us with his blood and made us kings and Priests.
© 2004 The Newton Project Canada, History of Science and Technology, University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 2A1, Canada
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