The human heart is so naturally opposed to the true God that our most basic primordial sin

is found in our propensity to idolatry to reject the true God to suppress the knowledge that he

has given of himself and make a substitution whereby we exchange the glory of the living God

for the glory of the creature, and we exchange the truth for a lie and serve and worship

the creature rather than the Creator.

RC Sproul said on a number of occasions that what people both in the church and outside of the

church need to know is who God is. Because theologians have said, without a right knowledge of God,

we won't have a right knowledge of self, yet the natural human heart is driven to idolatry,

rejecting the true God of Scripture. Welcome to the Thursday edition of renewing your mind,

Nathan W. Bingham. We must rightly know the God of Scripture, and those who penned the Westminster

confession of faith were very clear on who God is and his attributes. Today, RC Sproul begins in

chapter two of the confession, and he helps us understand the God-centred nature of reformed

theology. Here's Dr. Sproul. The title of chapter two is of God and of the Holy Trinity.

Let me read a little bit of section one before I begin to comment on it. The affirmation in

section one is this, there is but one only, living and true God, who is infinite in being and

perfection, a most pure spirit, invisible without body, parts or passions, immutable, immense

eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, most wise, most holy, most free, most absolute, semi-colon.

Now, we already have enough before we get the semi-colon that warrants a massive volume

in the study of the doctrine of God. Because what we have seen here is a list of the various

attributes that are ascribed to the being and to the character of God. And before we explore

these attributes, let me say by way of introduction that I often in teaching the doctrine of God in

seminary, as I've also said here in St. Andrews, when people asked me, what is distinctive in the

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