Questions on Chapter 1.

created the shining heavens above us—the sun, moon, and stars, that mirror the wisdom, power, and glory of their Author; nature, in its illimitable range of beauty, harmony, and utility; existence, in its endless diversity, and its boundless extent—in proclaiming all these grand and mysterious entities, as the workmanship of God’s hand, has not the Bible, in the most emphatic form, demonstrated the being of the great and unoriginated First Cause of all that is?

How can “the heavens declare the glory of God,” and not at the same time demonstrate his existence? If nature, in all its works, proclaims the being of God, so does the Bible, in every page on which his stupendous doings are recorded. If, in looking forth on nature, we read on every leaf and every cloud, on every mote and every globe, “The hand that made us is divine;” so, in perusing the sacred page, we trace, in every record of creation, in every event of divine providence, in every interposition of divine power, and in every dispensation of divine grace and mercy, the strongest possible demonstration of the existence of the great I Am—the God who was “before all things,” and by whom “all things consist.” QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 1.

QUESTION 1. What was the import of the term God with the Anglo-Saxons?

2. What is the Hebrew word rendered God in the first chapter of Genesis?

3. What was its root in the Arabic, and what did it imply?

4. What are the words for God in Greek and Latin, and what do they imply?

5. By what other names is God called in Scripture?

6. What is embraced in our general idea of God?

7. Do the Scriptures professedly teach that there is a God?

8. Was man originally fully impressed with the being of God?

9. By what means?

10. How was this knowledge secured to Noah?

11. How may it have extended, in some degree, to all nations?

12. Has human reason, independent of revelation, ever acquired a knowledge of the being of God?

13. May all nations derive arguments from nature and reason in favor of the existence of God?

14. From what sources may proofs of the divine existence be derived?

15. What is the argument from the testimony of nations?

16. From the testimony of nature?

17. From the testimony of revelation?