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The Failure of Common Grace (3)

David Engelsma·1998-09-15
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The Protestant Reformed Churches reject the common grace worldview proposed by Abraham Kuyper because this worldview has failed. For some 100 years, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands have practiced Kuyper's (and, I may add, Herman Bavinck's) worldview. The result has been not only that Dutch culture has not been "Christianized" but also that the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, with the Free University associated with these churches, have become thoroughly worldly. Common grace has...

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Author
David Engelsma
Date

1998-09-15

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Scripture References
Genesis 3:15
1 Peter 2:9
2 Corinthians 6:14-18
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 7:6Deuteronomy 33:28
John 15:19
Galatians 1:4
Revelation 18:4
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