WCF8 Proposition- There is but one God, He is the only living and true God, He is a most pure Spirit, I. He possesses all possible perfections. There is but one only,25 Deuteronomy 6:4, 1 Corinthians 8:4-6

living, and true God,26 1 Thessalonians 1:9, Jeremiah 10:10

who is infinite in being and perfection,27 Job 11:7-9, 26:14

a most pure spirit,28 John 4:24

invisible,29 1 Timothy 1:17, Colossians 1:15, Hebrews 11:27

without body, parts,30 Deuteronomy 4:15-16, John 4:24, Luke 24:39

or passions;31 Acts 14:11-15

immutable,32 James 1:17, Malachi 3:6

immense,33 1 Kings 8:27, Jeremiah 23:23-24, can you think of another?

eternal,34 Psalm 90:2, 1 Timothy 1:17

incomprehensible,35 Psalm 145:3

almighty,36 Genesis 17:1, Revelation 4:8

most wise,37 Romans 16:27

most holy,38 Isaiah 6:3, Revelation 4:8

most free,39 Psalm 115:3

most absolute;40 Exodus 3:14 working all things according to the counsel

of His own immutable and most righteous will,41 Ephesians 1:11

for His own glory;42 Proverbs 16:4, Romans 11:36

most loving,43 1 John 4:8, 16 gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth,

forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin;44 Exodus 34:6-7

the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him;45 Hebrews 11:6

and withal, most just, and terrible in His judgments,46 Nehemiah 9:32-33

hating all sin,47 Psalm 5:5-6

and who will by no means clear the guilty.48 Nahum 1:2-3, Exodus 34:7 ______One, The Scriptures constantly affirm what one truth? There is but ______God. The indivisible (simple) unity of this one God Scripture agues again and again, for a division in the Godhead would in effect constitute ______Gods. The Scripture teaches ______. (John 10:30) WCF8

This does not mean there is but one Divine Person, for later we will see the Scripture teaches three Divine Persons (the ), but all three Persons constitute ______Divine God. ______Living and true, This One God is the only living and true God; the Scriptures maintain this. He is the only True God, yet the name “god” is also used of various other beings; such as angels (Psalm 97:7), magistrates (Exodus 22:28, Psalm 82, John 10:35), Moses (Exodus 7:1), Satan (2 Corinthians 4:4), and sometimes idols also. Angels are called this on account of their excellent nature, magistrates, because in the execution of their God-given offices they act in God’s name and we are bound by Him to obey them. Moses was a god to Pharaoh for God made him so, and Aaron as his prophet to take the messages to Pharaoh. Satan, as having usurped authority for a time over rebellious sinful humanity and exercising only the power he has been given. But there is only the One Living and True God, called by Scripture as living to distinguish Him from dead and lifeless idols. See Psalm 115

How does this effect me?

Tritheism-insists on three Gods, Manicheans two (Buddhism, Gnostics, New Age), Mormons many more.

Modalism/Sabellianism—an example would be Oneness Pentecostalism, which denies the Trinity, requires baptism for salvation (with the necessity of a differing formula, in Jesus name), denies the sovereignty of God and demands gifts (such as tongues) as proof of salvation.

Arianism/Humanism-denying the divinity of Jesus Christ—progressive .

Liberal Myth of Christian Origins… Myth 1 ~ There were dozens if not hundreds of documents about Jesus other than those in the Bible. Some of these have now come to light, for example in the books discovered at Nag Hammadi in Egypt in mid-20th Century. It is these books that give us the real truth about Jesus.

Myth 2 ~ The four Gospels in the New Testament were later products aimed at making Jesus divine. The church selected them at the time of Constantine (in the 4th Century) in order to claim power and prestige. The church ruthlessly suppressed the multiple alternative voices.

Myth 3 ~ Jesus himself wasn’t at all as the Bible describes him. He didn’t think he was God’s son, or that he would die for the sins of the world; he didn’t come to found a new religion. He was a human being pure and simple, who gave some wonderful moral and spiritual teaching, that’s all. He may well have been married, perhaps even with a child on the way, when his career was cut short by death.

Myth 4 ~ Christianity as we know it is therefore based on a mistake. Mainstream Christianity is sexist, especially anti- women and anti-sex itself. It has aimed at, and in some places achieved, considerable social power and prestige, enabling it to be politically quietist and conformist.

Myth 5 ~ To revive the truth for which Jesus lived, and perhaps for which he died, we must embrace a different form of based on metaphor rather than literal truth, of feeling rather than structure. Individuals should discover whatever faith they can believe in, as long as it does not offend liberal sensitivities.