Question: You speak truly. Go on then: why do you call God ‘Father’?”
Answer: First and chiefly, because He is the natural Father of His only Son, Jesus Christ. Secondly, because He is our Father—both because He created us and gave life to us all, and also because He has spiritually begotten us again through the Holy Ghost. And by faith in His true and natural Son Jesus Christ, He has chosen and adopted us as His children; and through the same Christ He has given us His kingdom and the inheritance of everlasting life.
Scripture Reference: Psalm 2:7; Matt. 3:17; John 1:14; Rom. 15:6; 2 Cor. 1-3; Gen. 1:27; Malachi 1:6 and 2:10; John 1:12 and 3:3, 5; Rom. 8:15-17; Gal. 4:5-6; Eph. 1:5-6; Titus 3:7; 1 Pet. 1:3-5
Question. Why do you call God Almighty?
Answer: Because He made all things and has all things under His power, to order them according to His will.
Scripture Reference: Isa. 40:21-22; Matt. 5:45 and 10:29; Eph. 1:11; Heb. 1:23
Question. Are wicked spirits and evil men also subject to God’s power?
Answer. Otherwise we could never be free from fear, if they had any power over us apart from the will of God. But we are upheld by this comfort: that neither devils nor wicked men can so much as stir except by God’s will or permission; and that we are so under the protection of our Almighty Father that not even a single hair of our head can fall to the ground apart from His will, who bears us such good will.
Scripture Reference: John 1:10-12; Matt. 8:31-32; Luke 22:31-32; John 10:28-29 and 19:10-11; Acts 2:23-24 and 4:27-28 and 12:11; Luke 21:18 and 22:7
