Nielsen’s Nook

Relating to Herman Ridderbos

Bavinck on Providence 2006-02-14

If God and his human creatures can only be conceived as competitors, and if the one can only retain his freedom and independence at the expense of the other, then God has to be increasingly restricted both in knowledge and in will. Pelagianism, accordingly, banishes God from his world. It leads both to Deism and atheism and enthrones ...