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“The central facts of the incarnation, satisfaction, and resurrection are the fulfillment of the three great thoughts of the Old Covenant, the content of the New Testament, the Kerygma of the Apostles, the foundation of the Christian Church, the marrow of its history of dogma and the centre of the…” quote by Herman Bavinck — Download Open image

““The central facts of the incarnation, satisfaction, and resurrection are the fulfillment of the three great thoughts of the Old Covenant, the content of the New Testament, the Kerygma of the Apostles, the foundation of the Christian Church, the marrow of its history of dogma and the centre of the history of the world.””

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“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.”

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“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.”

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