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  I. WE AFFIRM that God exists uniquely, being separate from the universe, as well as being independent of any external conditions or limitations which characterize the existence and life of everything in the universe.   WE DENY that all being is one, that there are no fundamental distinctions in reality, and that God is somehow identical with what is opposite of Him.   WE DENY that God is part of or correlative to the world, that God must exist under all the same conditions or restrictions as any other thing which exists, and that history or the world process exists within God as part of His own development.   WE DENY that there is anything which exists as an intermediate kind of entity between the Creator and the creation, being neither fully divine nor fully creature.   II. WE AFFIRM that God is a personal, sovereign, transcendent, and triune Spirit; He alone is infinite, self-sufficient, unchanging, and eternal.   WE DENY that God is a secondary, created, developing, or dependent being.   WE DENY that God is a being composed of physical matter, regardless of how refined matter is construed to be.   WE DENY that the act of creation changed the being of God, added anything to His perfections, or altered the internal relations among the persons of the Trinity.   WE DENY that God’s eternal plan, purpose, or decree of creation is inseparable from the execution of that plan or that any created thing was brought into actual existence from all eternity.   WE DENY that anything apart from God is equally ultimate with Him, and that any created thing has in itself the abilities or prerogatives of God.   WE DENY that the ideas, forms, essences, concepts, or ideals of things can exist of themselves or have existed eternally apart from God.   WE DENY that matter, the physical universe, angels, and souls can exist of themselves or have existed eternally.   WE DENY any view which maintains or implies that any reality distinct from God is not dependent upo