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of confidence ask anything of their parents."--LUTHER'S
CATECHISM.

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II


CONCERNING GOD

_"Holy Father."_--JOHN xvii. 11.


It is natural and fitting in an attempt to understand the teaching of
Jesus that we should begin with His doctrine of God. For a man's idea of
God is fundamental, regulative of all his religious thinking. As is his
God, so will his religion be. Given the arc we can complete the circle;
given a man's conception of God, from that we can construct the main
outlines of his creed. What, then, was the teaching of Jesus concerning
God?


I


In harmony with what has been already said in the previous chapter,


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