11. God not only created the universe, but also continually sustains its existence. Worldviews that consider God as merely winding up the universe so that it then became self-sustaining (such as deism) must be rejected as false. 12. God created all things, not out of need or desperation but as an act of divine freedom (given the Triune nature of the Christian God). Religions that view God as a single solitary person (such as Islam and other unitarian conceptions of God) should be rejected as ontologically
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