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ОглавлениеOUR CONFESSION OF FAITH.
First verse of the Shema’:
Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one.
1. The Lord alone is our God.
2. There is no God besides Him.
3. To Him alone may we pray.
4. He alone can save us, protect us, help us and bless us.
5. We prove that the Lord is our God by obeying Him and honoring Him always.
6. It is no use saying that the Lord is our God unless we always do what He wishes us, and unless we always try to please Him.
*7. Since He is the only God, we are responsible to Him alone.
8. If we sin, He alone can forgive us.
9. To pray to any other Being, or to ask pardon from any other Being, is to insult His honor and to profane His Holy Name.
10. The knowledge that we are directly responsible to Him alone should lead us to realize that although He is our Judge, He is also our loving and merciful Father in Heaven.
BIBLE QUOTATIONS.
1. Know therefore this day and reflect in thy heart, that the Lord He is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none else.—Deut. iv, 40.
2. I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides Me.—Isa. xlv, 5.
3. Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else.—Isa. xlv, 22.
4. I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no Savior.—Isa. xliii, 11.
Ye that revere the Lord, trust in the Lord; He is their help and shield.—Psalm cxv, 11.
God, even our own God, will bless us.—Psalm lxvii, 7.
7. Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned.—Psalm li, 4.
8. Forgiveness is with Thee.—Psalm cxxx, 4.
9. I am the Lord: that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another.—Isa. xlii, 8.
10. But now, O Lord, Thou art our Father.... Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity forever.—Isa. xliv. 8, 9.
