Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the Doctrine of God, Part 1.

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Today we begin a new locus, which is the doctrine of God.

This is the centerpiece of theology.

Indeed, sometimes it's called theology proper, the study of God.

Charles Spurgeon in his morning sermon of January 7, 1855, began with these words.

It has been said by someone that the proper study of mankind

is man. I will not oppose the idea, but I believe it is equally true that the proper study

of God's elect is God. The proper study of a Christian is the Godhead.

The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy which can ever engage

the attention of a child of God is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls

his father."

Spurgeon went on to say, there is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation

of the divinity.

It is a subject so vast that all our thoughts are drowned in its immensity,

so deep that our pride is lost in its infinity. No subject of contemplation will tend more

to humble the mind than thoughts of God. But while the subject humbles the mind, it also expands

it. He who often thinks of God will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around

this narrow globe. Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul

of man as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the deity.

It is to that subject, said Spurgeon, that I invite you this morning. It is also to that subject, said Spurgeon, that I invite you this morning. And is also to that subject

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