What is The Heidelberg Catechism?
Also could you explain to me why the catechisms and Westminster Confession of Faith are so important to your church? I think I read that your pastors and elders have to believe everything in them. Isn’t that the same as saying they are infallible? Answer: 1. You asked, “Is the Heidelberg Catechism the same as either the [Westminster] larger and shorter catechisms?” Well, not exactly. The form is different, but the substance is essentially the same. All three are Reformed, but they are different documents. The official (secondary) doctrinal standards of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) are the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Westminster Shorter Catechism, and the Westminster Larger Catechism, as can be seen from What Is the OPC?: During an enormous religious and political struggle to determine the character of the English and Scottish national churches, the Westminster Assembly met in London from 1643 to 1649. It issued the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms. Thes
