Question 8

1. Is God the living God? Yes.

   “He is the living God” Daniel 6:26

2. Hath he life in himself? Yes.

   “The Father hath life in himself” John 5:26

3. Doth he give life to others? Yes.

   “He quickeneth all things” 1 Timothy 6:13

4. Should living men therefore seek to the living God? Yes.

   “Should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?” Isaiah 8:19

1. Is God the true God? Yes.

   “This is the true God” 1 John 5:20

2. Is he the only true God? Yes.

   “This is life eternal, to know thee the only true God” John 17:3

3. And are all other gods false gods? Yes.

   “They are vanity and the work of errors” Jeremiah 10:15

1. Is that God whom we serve, this only living and true God? Yes.

   “The Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King” Jeremiah 10:10

2. And is he but one? Yes.

   “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord” Deuteronomy 6:4

3. Does God assume this prerogative to himself? Yes.

   “Is there a God besides me? Yea, there is no God; I know not any” Isaiah 44:8

4. And have his people always ascribed it to him? Yes.

   “Unto us there is but one God” 1 Corinthians 8:6

5. But do not those who assert the deity of Christ destroy the unity of the godhead? No.

   “For he says, I and my Father are one” John 10:30

1. Are there many gods in name? Yes.

   “There are gods many, and lords many” 1 Corinthians 8:5

2. But are these gods by nature? No.

   “When ye knew not God, ye did service to them which by nature are no gods” Galatians 4:8

3. Are they then to be reputed of? No.

   “We know that an idol is nothing in the world” 1 Corinthians 8:4

4. Are those guilty of the greatest absurdity who worship them? Yes.

   “Those that make them are like unto them, and” Psalm 115:8

5. Do we well therefore not to imitate them? Yes.

   “Little children, keep yourselves from idols” 1 John 5:21

Benjamin Beddome (1717–1795), pastor at Bourton-on-the-Water. Verses from the King James Version.