# “Christ is Himself Christianity” by Herman Bavinck

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- Published: 2024-06-19T21:00:00-05:00
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“Christianity stands in a very different relationship to the person of Christ than
the other religions do to the persons who founded them.

Jesus was not the first confessor of the religion named after His name. He was not
the first and the most important Christian. He occupies a wholly unique place in
Christianity.

He is not in the usual sense of it the founder of Christianity, but He is the Christ,
the One who was sent by the Father, and who founded His Kingdom on earth and now
extends and preserves it to the end of the ages.

Christ is Himself Christianity.

He stands, not outside, but inside of it. Without His name, person, and work there
is no such thing as Christianity.

In one word, Christ is not the one who points the way to Christianity, but the way
itself.

He is the only, true, and perfect Mediator between God and men.

That which the various religions in their belief in a mediator have surmised and
hoped, that is actually and perfectly fulfilled in Christ.”

–Herman Bavinck, [_The Wonderful Works of God_ ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733627227?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
trans. Henry Zylstra; Glenside, PA: Westminster Seminary Press, 1909/2019), 263.

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