All Articles For A Brief Sketch of the Revelational Requisite for Progress of Dogma

Thus far we have mentioned the covenant with Noah only as the second form or mold of the covenant rela­tionship by which God is related to His handiwork. With the exception of this second form of the covenant of God’s Divine Friendship, we shall but briefly touch upon the peculiarities of the various covenant forms and then we shall proceed to treat topics belonging to the history of dogma proper. From the foregoing articles it could easily be ascer­tained that our explanation of the covenant with Noah, would be viewed in the light of and in harmony with the general...

To Adam God revealed Himself antithetically. Not as in the Son of His love, not to the same extent as in the Son, but Adam had an antithetical revelation of God nevertheless. If he had not, where would God’s Divine revelation have been with the Trade-Mark of the Divine upon it? “Adam, eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and you do evil. Eat not of the tree and you do good.” The probationary command has in it the elements of the antithetical revelation of God. “Die woorden ‘kennisse des goeds en des kwaads’ onderstellen toch, dat...

We wish to show as briefly as we can how God by progressive revelation to His people established for the church of the N. T. the requisite for the development of her dogmas. God commenced the revelation of Himself with the earliest of days. But this revelation of God was not completed until the days of the Son of Man, of Jesus Christ, the Savior and Redeemer. For progress of dogma we are, therefore, dependent upon the Word and the work of the living God. This dependence is in itself the characteristic of Protestant­ism. Without this dependence Protestantism would mean...