“The central facts of the incarnation, satisfaction, and resurrection are the fulfillment of the three great thoughts of the Old Covenant, the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The cross of Christ divides history into two parts — the preparation for and the accomplishment of reconciliation;” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“We have no historical testimony to the development of polytheism into pure monotheism;” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“one thread runs through the history of mankind, namely, the operation of the sovereign, merciful, and almighty will of God, to save… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself, in its… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Man can as little make propitiation for his sin as he can forgive it himself. But God can do both, atone and forgive; he… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves . .… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“revelation always supposes that man is able to receive impressions or thoughts or inclinations from another than this phenomenal world, and in a way… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to satisfy the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The truth and value of Christianity do not depend on the fruits which it has borne for civilization and culture: it has its own… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“if sin bears an ethical character, then redemption is possible, and conversion is in principle the conquest of sin, the death of the old… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
