Herman Bavinck Quotes

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• One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
• In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this way sin continues…
• We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in darkness. Scripture makes…
• The essence of Christianity consists therein: that the creation of the Father, destroyed by sin, is again restored in the death of the Son of…
• A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is…
• It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensity…
• Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.
• The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the…
• The gospel is the food of faith... God saves by causing Himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ.
• God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom of God by…
• Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the…
• Mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics.

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