There is one God and only one true and living God. The light of nature in man proves the being of God. All nations acknowledge a God, or gods. Natural conscience, accusing or else excusing, proves the being of God, and man’s responsibility to Him for his actions.1 The creation proves the being of God, as an effect proves that it had a cause. The creation could not have come into being of itself; it must have had a cause.2 The being of man himself proves the being of God: forasmuch as one man is the offspring of another man, the first man must have existed; consequently he must have had a Creator.
The order, beauty, adaption, harmony, and consistence of the creation proves that a wise God gave it being, and upholds and governs all things.3 All creatures answer purposes which they could not themselves have ordained or designed; it is evident, therefore, that one great Governor rules over all.4 The terrible retributions that have befallen some of God’s enemies in this world, and the terrors that have dismayed their consciences at death, after a life spent in denying God, prove his existence.5
1 1 Tim. 2:5; Isa. 44:5; Rom. 2:14,15. 2 Psa. 19:1-3; Rom. 1:20. 3 Isa. 40:26; Psa. 148:5,6; 2 Pet. 3:5. 4 Psa. 103:19; Jer. 8:7; Job 39. 5 Exod. 5:2; Exod. 9:27; Exod.14:25.
