with the teachings which the church has received from God through Christ. These teachings pertain to the triune God who has created the world; to man made in the image of this God; to man become sinner by keeping under the knowledge of God; to God becoming man in Christ Jesus, bearing for sinners the wrath of God and rising from the dead for their justification; gone to heaven to prepare a place for those he came to redeem and about to return on the clouds of heaven to judge the living and the dead