God and the Holy Trinity

One God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Because Holy Scripture is the Word of God, we believe, teach, and confess the Triune God: the One true God (Deuteronomy 6:4; 1 Corinthians 8:4) is the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons, but of one and the same divine essence, equal in power, equal in eternity, equal in majesty, because each person possesses the one divine essence entirely (Colossians 2:9; Matthew 28:19). We hold that all teachers and religions that deny the doctrine of the Holy Trinity are outside of the Christian Church. The Triune God is the God who is gracious to man (John 3:16-18; 1 Corinthians 12:3).

Since the Fall of man (Genesis 1-3), no man can believe in the "fatherhood" of God except he who believes in the eternal Son of God, who became man and reconciled us to God by His vicarious satisfaction (1 John 2:23; John 14:6). This is a sacred mystery, one that we do not seek to explain through analogy, metaphor, or simile.