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> [“Sin has not destroyed the creaturely relationship of man to his maker, who made him a cultural creature with the mandate to replenish and subdue the earth. Sin has not destroyed the cultural urge in man to rule, since man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-r-van-til-2/sin-has-not-destroyed-the-creaturely-relationship-of-man-to-his-maker/)

[Henry R Van Til](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-r-van-til-2/)

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## More by Henry R Van Til

> [“Rome changed the New Testament catholicity (which purifies and sanctifies as it's proper domain the whole of life) and has substituted in its place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-r-van-til-2/rome-changed-the-new-testament-catholicity-which-purifies-and/)

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> [“The expectation of future glory and the joy of future redemption has its counterpart here and now in the implications for the present life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-r-van-til-2/the-expectation-of-future-glory-and-the-joy-of-future-redemption-has/)

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> [“Although the realization of values in a culture may seem on the surface to be concerned merely with the temporal and material, this is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-r-van-til-2/although-the-realization-of-values-in-a-culture-may-seem-on-the/)

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> [“Christians are called unto holiness and are to be engaged actively in self-purification. They are to walk in good works which have been prepared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-r-van-til-2/christians-are-called-unto-holiness-and-are-to-be-engaged-actively-in/)

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> [“Since man is a moral being, his culture cannot be a-moral. Because man is a religious being, his culture, too, must be religiously oriented.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-r-van-til-2/since-man-is-a-moral-being-his-culture-cannot-be-a-moral-because-man/)

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> [“Sin has not destroyed the creaturely relationship of man to his maker, who made him a cultural creature with the mandate to replenish and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-r-van-til-2/sin-has-not-destroyed-the-creaturely-relationship-of-man-to-his-maker/)

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> [“Culture is any and all human effort and labor expended upon the cosmos, to unearth its treasures and its riches and bring them into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-r-van-til-2/culture-is-any-and-all-human-effort-and-labor-expended-upon-the/)

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> [“The Protestant Reformation did not merely seek to cleanse the church and deliver it from doctrinal errors, but it also sought the restoration of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-r-van-til-2/the-protestant-reformation-did-not-merely-seek-to-cleanse-the-church/)

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> [“Through the Reformation, the mechanical relation of nature and grace was superceded by an ethical one, so that the restoration of the law of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-r-van-til-2/through-the-reformation-the-mechanical-relation-of-nature-and-grace/)

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> [“Christ has redeemed the cultural agents, thus transforming culture also.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-r-van-til-2/christ-has-redeemed-the-cultural-agents-thus-transforming-culture-also/)

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> [“Does the twentieth-century disciple have a right to discard the cultural mandate, twice given to the human race by Jehovah himself? Are we justified…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-r-van-til-2/does-the-twentieth-century-disciple-have-a-right-to-discard-the/)

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