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God and the Godhead.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Talmage, James E. (James Edward)
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1. Show that the exercise of faith in God is dependent upon a knowledge of His existence.
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2. State what you know of the general belief of mankind as to the existence of God.
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3. Summarize the evidence on which our belief in the existence of God is founded.
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4. Give evidence drawn from human history and tradition.
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5. Show how the exercise of reason affords evidence of the same.
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6. Give the evidence of revelation (1, instances recorded in the Bible; 2, Book of Mormon instances; 3, examples from modern revelation).
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7. Show that the Godhead is a Trinity.
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8. What do you understand by the scriptural declarations concerning the unity of the Godhead?
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9. Give evidence of the personality of each member of the Godhead (with scriptural references).
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10. Summarize the most important of the Divine attributes as attested by scripture.
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11. Define:—1, Idolatry; 2, Atheism; 3, Theism, with its varied modifications.
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12. Show that atheism is of comparatively modern development.
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13. Show that a belief in God is natural and necessary amongst human-kind. (See pp. 49, 53.)
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14. In what way does the idolatry of heathen nations support a belief in the existence of God?
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15. Show the close relationship between atheism and immaterialism.

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The Articles of Faith A Series of Lectures on the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Project Gutenberg eBook #42238

Introductory. Transgression.