Geerhardus Vos Quotes

#1. Biblical Theology ... is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity ... Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.

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#2. Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore.

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#3. The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

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#4. There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.

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#5. The resurrection stands related to righteousness in the same way that death stands related to sin.

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#6. Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.

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