For our next couple of meetings, here are the readings from Louis Berkhof’s Systematic Theology:

I. The Existence of God

C. Denial of the existence of God in its various forms

1. Absolute Denial of the Existence of God (pages 22-23)

2. Present Day False Conceptions of God Involving a Denial of the True God (pages 24-25)

D. The So-Called Rational Proofs for the Existence of God

1. The Ontological Argument (page 26)

2. The Cosmological Argument (page 26)

3. The Teleological Argument (page 26)

4. The Moral Argument (page 27)

5. The Historical or Ethnological Argument (pages 27, 28)

II. The Knowability of God

A. God Incomprehensible but Knowable (pages 29, 30)

B. Denial of the Knowability of God (pages 30-31, 32-33, 34)

C. Self-revelation the Prerequisite of All Knowledge of God

1. God Communicates Knowledge of Himself to Man (pages 34-35)

2. Innate and Acquired Knowledge of God (page 35)

3. General and Special Revelation (pages 36-37, 38-39, 40)