“Believers are nothing other than normal human beings, whose eyes have been opened again to the eternal and heavenly, whose hearts have learned again to understand the secrets of the kingdom of heaven. (Matt. 13:11; Luke 8:10)
Christians do not build their knowledge of the truth from faith, but through faith they penetrate ever deeper into the secrets of salvation.
The word of God is thus always the firm ground on which they stand, the rock to which they cling, (Matt. 7:24; Luke 6:47-48) the starting point for their thinking, the source of their knowledge, the rule for their lives, the light to their path, and the lamp to their feet. (Ps. 119:105)”
–Herman Bavinck, The Certainty of Faith, trans. and ed. Daniel Schrock (Glenside, PA: Westminster Seminary Press, 1901/2025), 88.
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