LECTURE II, ARTICLE 1.

1. Show that the exercise of faith in God is dependent upon a knowledge of His existence.

2. State what you know of the general belief of mankind as to the existence of God.

3. Summarize the evidence on which our belief in the existence of God is founded.

4. Give evidence drawn from human history and tradition.

5. Show how the exercise of reason affords evidence of the same.

6. Give the evidence of revelation (1, instances recorded in the Bible; 2, Book of Mormon instances; 3, examples from modern revelation).

7. Show that the Godhead is a Trinity.

8. What do you understand by the scriptural declarations concerning the unity of the Godhead?

9. Give evidence of the personality of each member of the Godhead (with scriptural references).

10. Summarize the most important of the Divine attributes as attested by scripture.

11. Define:—1, Idolatry; 2, Atheism; 3, Theism, with its varied modifications.

12. Show that atheism is of comparatively modern development.

13. Show that a belief in God is natural and necessary amongst human-kind. (See pp. 49, 53.)

14. In what way does the idolatry of heathen nations support a belief in the existence of God?

15. Show the close relationship between atheism and immaterialism.