ABSTRACT
This chapter explains whether the doctrine of the innate idea of God, or any similar epistemology of theistic belief, provides a good objection to natural theology. Reformed theologians have sometimes appealed to the naturally implanted knowledge of God to prove that God exists. Calvin affirmed a naturally implanted knowledge of God as well as knowledge of God from the external manifestation of God in the works of creation and providence. Calvin believed that some knowledge of God as creator was mediated by God's works of creation and providence, which supply 'innumerable evidences' of God's wisdom power, and goodness. Belief in God, then, originates from the natural constitution of the human person as a rational moral agent. Natural theology is a desideratum because of the importance of a systematic doctrine of God, which requires the careful articulation of the contents of natural revelation.
