G'day, and welcome to Pints with a Quinus, my name is Matt Fradd.

If you could sit down over a pint of beer with Pommas a Quinus and ask him any one question,

what would it be? In today's episode, we are going to ask him what is meant by that line in the

Apostles Creed, I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth.

And here we're going to look at three reasons a Quinus gives against polytheism. Why there must

only be one God, we're then going to look at four motives which lead men to believe in a number

of gods and we will refute them. We'll talk about the idols in our life and how we ought to

dethrone them. And then finally, we're going to take some questions from our patrons and we get

some really interesting questions. Someone asks whether they should flee to the Orthodox church

since they have valid sacraments. Someone else asks my opinion on church militant and we talk about

that. Someone else asks if I'm going to let my kids play American football and we get into a lot of

things and I think you're really going to enjoy it. So thanks for tuning in, here's the show.

Okay, welcome back to Pints with a Quinus. This is the show where you and I pull up a

barstall next to the angelic doctor to discuss theology and philosophy. Now I said last week that

I wanted to take a look at Thomas's commentary on the creed. It is fabulous. Part of the reason I

wanted to look at this, the main reason I wanted to look at this is because we live in a very confusing

day and age and I think it's important that we get back to basics so that we can continue to build

upon a solid foundation. You can't do theology if you have a shaky foundation. If you don't believe

in God then theology doesn't exist, right? Because God has to reveal himself a theology to be a

thing and if he doesn't exist, he can't reveal himself. Likewise, if Christ isn't God, then everything

else upon this foundation will fall apart. So that's why I want to look at Thomas's

exposition, his commentary on the creed. Now he says a lot. So this might have to be a couple of

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