Handling one another with care

Q. 77. What is required in the ninth commandment?
A. The ninth commandment requires the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own and our neighbor’s good name, especially in witness-bearing.

Q. 78. What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
A. The ninth commandment forbids whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own, or our neighbor’s, good name. 

[Westminster Shorter Catechism]

The Bible - for our enjoyment!

INTRODUCTORY

2. Q. What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?

A. The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.

Comment
We could not know of ourselves what God is like and so how to enjoy him or glorify him. But God has told us in the Bible.

Q&A

[A catechism is a book in which instruction is conveyed by means of question and answer. The shorter catechism was written about the year 1647 by a number of ministers and others who assembled at Westminster, London, to make preparations for a common church and faith for the whole kingdom. It consists of 107 questions and answers. Of these the first three introductory and the next 33 tell us what to believe and the next 69 tell us what we are to do.]

INTRODUCTORY

1. Q. What is God?

A. God is a spirit -- infinite, eternal, and unchangeable -- in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

Comment
The first thing we are told concerning God is that he has no body as we have. The second thing is that he is not limited like us by want of power, affected by time, or subject to change. And the third thing is that in character he is wise, and holy, and just, and good, and true. This is God-- the greatest of all beings and the best.