Today’s Quote – God’s Names (Bavinck)

Herman Bavinck, The Doctrine of God:

…the names which we use in mentioning and addressing God are not arbitrary:  they are not the mere inventions of our mind.  Rather, it is God himself who in nature and in grace reveals himself consciously and freely, who gives us the right to name him on the ground of this revelation, and who has even made known to us in his Word the names which are based on that revelation.  God’s names, therefore, have this in common:  they are all derived from God’s revelation…

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