I'd like to see a Bavinck avatar. Any chance?

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sincerely,
mark
member 1st Christian Reformed Church (don't freak out on me, now)
Grand Haven, MI
www.vanallsblog.blogspot.com
Question: How do you know which eye of John Murray's was the glass eye?
Answer: It was the one with the most compassion.

Bavinck would not believe in chance.

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Nathan Eshelman
Grand Rapids, MI
First Reformed Presbyterian Church

PRESBYTERIAN THOUGHTS

First Reformed Presbyterian Church

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk

Good catch, grasshopper. you pass the test.

But because he understood creation and providence as the foundation for human experience, he might have felt free to use that language for its existential import. After all, Jesus HIMSELF said,

Now by chance a priest was going down that road..." (Luke 10:31)

Wonder why Jesus felt comfortable talking that way?

Here's one:



Are you asking for an avatar or a smilie?

If you want an avatar, find a public domain image and crop it to size (Max 150 X 150) and either upload it to your profile or link it from a photo-host.

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R.Vic Bottomly
Providence Reformed Baptist Church, Tacoma, WA

Vic,

You sort of look like a modern day Bavinck, without the beard.

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Ryan Barnhart - Pastor of OGBC
Husband to a beautiful wife, Father to two beautiful girls
"But by the grace of God I am what I am." I Corinthians 15:10

"I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms. And in the Great Day my Resurrection body will rise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer." - John Paton

dude awesome! I can't decide who I like more, Herman Bavinck, or John Murray! I have Reformed Dogmatics and the Collected Writings right next to each other on my bookshelf. It's practically idolatry!

Thanks again!
(unless you don't drink). Then cheers w/ rootbeer.

Here's me with a beard, circa 1977:

I only drink homebrew.

I'm definitely seeing more Bavinck in the 2008 Vic than the 1977 Vic.

This is really interesting to me. I was reading Acts yesterday, and, by chance, came across the same word (in the ESV).

The English word occurs 7 times in the AV, but has two different meanings. Jesus is using the one that many Reformed Christians would consider offensive:

suntuci: occurrence, happening, incident; kata. suntuci,an by chance, by coincidence.

What is great though is that the English Refugees in Geneva were not going to use the term. Look at the extent to which the Geneva Bible goes to avoid using the term:

Nowe so it fell out, that there came downe a certaine Priest that same way, and when he sawe him, he passed by on the other side.

Yes, I too find this very interesting. I reformed pastor once preached on this text and said we should feel free to talk this way about our life events because the Bible allows for this language.

The difference, he said, was that Christians shouldn't talk about "Chance" the way the Greeks did. Instead, creation and providence are (as I wrote earlier) the foundation of human freedom. So, in that context of the biblical worldview--and not the Greek one-- we can talk about chance.

waddyathink?