Affirms
God is Creator, Father, and Sovereign Lord; love and justice are central
Mennonites affirm the classical Christian understanding of God as one eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, and personal Being who is holy, loving, and just. God is the Creator of all things and the sovereign Lord of history. The Mennonite tradition particularly emphasizes God's love — revealed in the cross — and God's call to justice as characteristics that the community is to embody.
Anabaptist theology connects God's character directly to ethics: because God is love and calls for peace, believers are to love their enemies; because God is just, the community is to practice economic sharing and mutual aid. God's nature defines the shape of the community's life.
Key Distinctions
- Theism type:
- classical monotheism — one God, infinite, eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent
- Primary divine attribute:
- love and holiness (biblical); divine simplicity affirmed (God is what he has)
Scripture References
Sources
- Mennonite Confession of Faith (1995), Article 1 (God)