1. It is necessary, then, that we begin with the first and greatest principle, with the Creator God who made heaven and earth and all things in them,1 whom these individuals blasphemously call the fruit of degeneracy. [It is necessary] further that we show that there is nothing either above him or after him, and that he was influenced by no one but, rather, made all things by his own counsel and free will, since he alone is God, and he alone