A person who tries to debar himself from joy is certainly not an obedient person…Christ is risen; He is truly risen. Joy is now joy before the Lord and in Hinm. It is joy in his salvation, His grace, His law, His whole action. But it is now genuine, earthly, human joy: the joy of…
The Dangers of Biblicism
Who told us we could understand the Bible without theology and church history? ‘The reformation Scripture principle always had the potential to be used in a way which did not simply critique the traditional teachings of the church but could also overthrow them wholesale. That this was the case is clear from the Socinians, whose…
Bavinck on Providence
I found this quote encouraging and moving… ‘the Christian has witnessed God’s special providence at work in the cross of Christ and experienced it in the forgiving and regenerating grace of God, which has come to one’s own heart. And from the vantage point this new and certain experience in one’s own life, the Christian…
Frame on Objectivity
Our creatureliness means objectivity is a mirage: Sometimes we dream fondly of a “purely objective” knowledge of God-a knowledge of God freed from the limitations of our senses, minds, experiences, preparation, and so forth. But nothing of this sort is possible, and God does not demand that of us. Rather, He condescends to dwell in…
Wolters on John’s Gospel
Yet John uses these terms and thought-forms in such a way as to confront his hearers with a fundamental question and indeed a contradiction. John begins with the announcement “In the beginning was the logos.” As he continues it becomes apparent that logos is not the impersonal law of rationality that permeates the universe giving…
Bavinck on Revelation
All revelation of God is analogical… It must not be overlooked that we have no knowledge of God other than from his revelation in the creaturely world… . Of God we have no direct but only an indirect kind of knowledge, a concept derived from the creaturely world. Though not exhaustive, it is not untrue,…
Bavinck on the Imago Dei
Just love this from Herman Bavinck: So the whole human being is image and likeness of God, in soul and body, in all human faculties, powers, and gifts. Nothing in humanity is excluded from God’s image; it stretches as far as our humanity does and constitutes our humanness. The human is not the divine self…
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