translated by Craig L. Nessan (Fortress, 2002)
The church teaches that
in the beginning God
created the world out
of nothing and is its
Lord. We received this
faith from the
proclamation of
the revelation of the
Triune God alone,
as the church on the
basis of the Holy
Scriptures testifies
to us.
According to what occurs
through this testimony,
pious and natural
knowledge is UNABLE to
grasp neither God as
Creator nor the world
as creation. . .
Faith and natural
knowledge are therefore
no longer one, because
we live in a fallen
world. . .
Therefore we are
dependent for
knowledge of God
upon God's self-
revelation alone,
testified through
the Holy Scriptures
and proclaimed thru
the preaching of the
church. . .
We reject the false
teaching that this
world, as it is,
corresponds to the
original will of
God for creation
and therefore must be
affirmed as unbroken. . .
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