THE ONE TRUE GOD Responding to its fifth question, “Are there more Gods than one?” the Westminster Shorter Catechism declares: “There is but one only, the living and true God.” The Catechism derives its description of God here from Jeremiah 10:10: “But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God, the everlasting King.” Its monotheistic assertion is expressly supported and everywhere assumed by both the Old and New Testaments: Deuteronomy 6:4: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one