WHY I BELIEVE IN THE GOD OF THE BIBLE A word is in order about why I begin at the place I do and not with a discussion of the value of the traditional “proofs” or arguments for God’s existence (unlike many other Reformed systematic theologies, including Francis Turretin’s Institutes of Elenctic Theology, Charles Hodge’s Systematic Theology, Robert Lewis Dabney’s Lectures in Systematic Theology, and Louis Berkhof’s Systematic Theology). I start where I do because I do not commend these arguments,