The Westminster Confession of Faith

It was 1643. London. The little British world—Scotland, England, and Ireland—was caught in a civil war. And the Christian church wasn’t doing much better.

Debates still raged over the authority of the Bible. The Reformation—the return to the truth of the Bible, which had begun a century earlier—had spread all over Europe, and biblical teaching was beginning to take root in churches.

But it was time for reform in the Church of England—the official church of the British Isles. Time to re-forge its foundational documents according to the clear doctrines of Scripture and change Anglicanism for the better.

So in order to find peace within warring factions of the church, in 1646, over a hundred men of one mind piled into Westminster Abbey to rewrite the Church of England’s foundational documents.

Three documents emerged . . .

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