"We can shed some light on the possibility……" — Herman Bavinck
"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 not so much a single effort to render this transition understandable"
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12 Quotes by Herman Bavinck
Herman Bavinck has 12 quotes on this site.
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One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
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In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin.…
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The essence of Christianity consists therein: that the creation of the Father, destroyed by sin, is again restored in the…
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A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through…
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It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created…
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Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed…
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The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law…
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The gospel is the food of faith... God saves by causing Himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ.
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God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into…
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Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety,…
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Mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics.
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