single God30 When they thus speak, they “simply use the name god as if they had thought one God sufficient.” It is not their “natural theology”—the interpretations usually given by men of the revelation of God—which has in it any particle of truth. But all the heathen, to a man, by their own vanity either were dragged or slipped back into false inventions, and thus their perceptions so vanished that whatever they had naturally sensed concerning the sole God had no value beyond making them inexcusable.