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3. Who is God?

God is an infinitely perfect Spirit, the Lord of Heaven and earth, and the Author of all good.

4. Can we see God?

No; we cannot see God with corporeal eyes, because He is a Spirit.

5. How, then, can we come to a knowledge of God?

God has made Himself known to us in two ways; that is, in a natural, and in a supernatural way.

6. How has God made Himself known to man in a natural way?

1. By the visible world, which He has created and continually governs; for nobody can reasonably think that the world has made itself, or that the regular and perfect order in it originated and subsists by itself. Only 'the fool hath said in his heart. There is no God' (Ps. xiii. 1).

2. By the voice of conscience, which admonishes us to dread an invisible avenger of sin, and to hope in a rewarder of virtue (Rom. ii. 15).

7. How has God made Himself known to man in a supernatural manner?