I. GOD IS ONE
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CAN there be any doubt that God is one? Only in degraded forms of religion do we ever find men worshiping more than one God. Plato and Aristotle confessed that the many deities of the Greeks were only so many properties, qualities, and attributes of the one God. Reason revolts against the thought of more than one God, confirming itself by the unity of nature and the obviousness of this unity in the entire created universe. For, since the universe acts together as one great whole, as a cosmos not a chaos, it is evident that there is only one creating and directing force at the head of such a unified system.
Is it necessary in this our day to argue for the existence of only one God? Do not all men admit it? They admit it as a general proposition in theory, but their theologies have not always been in accord either with reason or Scriptures in this regard. But it is indispensable for
