We believe in God, the Eternal Father of our spirits^†, whose purposes are good and whose love for His children is without limit. His power sustains our existence. Nothing exists apart from His knowledge. Nothing is beyond His care. He is God in the Highest. Of the eternal functions and hierarchy of heavenly populations we remain carefully neutral and avoid speculation for the sake of interfaith unity. We also believe that no mortal human can claim to know the full nature of God. We only know as much as He chooses to reveal plainly, for God said, "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

† This teaching is set down as biblically anchored witness rather than as common ground. Of sixteen Christian traditions, measured by their own adopted texts, seven teach that God is the Father of our spirits; none teaches otherwise; five hold no common position, and four are still being confirmed. That falls short of the more-than-four-in-five standard these Articles keep. See Of the Father of Spirits: A Disclosure of Witness. ↩