“The doctrine of the divine authority of Holy Scripture constitutes an important component in the words of God that Jesus preached, and if he was mistaken on this point he was wrong at a point that is most closely tied in with the religious life and he can no longer be recognized as our highest prophet. We cannot take Jesus seriously as a teacher and reject his own teaching concerning Holy Scripture.” InspirationJesusChristianityBibleScriptureInfallibilityInerrancyBiblical Authority Book:Reformed Dogmatics Source: Reformed Dogmatics
“Viewed properly, there is only one duty, that of love, which is the fulfillment of the law (Romans 13:10). And there actually is only one object of that law- namely, God. Everything else- people, angels, nature, art, and so forth-may and must be only in God and for God. The sole end of all things, ourselves, our neighbors, the state, and the like- is God's glory. Pg. 101” ChristianityReligion QuotesReformed Theology Author:Herman Bavinck
“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 God and recreated by the grace of the Holy Spirit to a Kingdom of God.” SpiritFaithFatherSinChristianityGraceCreationSonHolyEssenceKingdomsChristian LifeDestroyedHoly SpiritKingdom Of God Book:The Sacrifice of Praise: Meditations Before and After Receiving Access to the Table of the Lord Source: The Sacrifice of Praise: Meditations Before and After Receiving Access to the Table of the Lord
“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 Christian faith. That person becomes a branch that is torn from the tree and shrivels, an organ that is separated from the body and therefore doomed to die. Only within the communion of the saints can the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of Christ be comprehended.” PersonsWholeBodyChristianDiesChristLosesChurchChristianityTreeDepthSaintHeightBranchesLengthOrgansDogmaDoomedCommunionTornChristian FaithBreadthEntirety Book:Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 1: Prolegomena Source: Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 1: Prolegomena
