Henry Clarence Thiessen Quotes

• Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

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  Men   Evil   Want  

  Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.191, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

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  Deeds   Sin  

  Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.173, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized, or only partly organized facts. God has not seen fit to write the Bible in the form of a systematic theology; it remains for us, therefore, to gather together the scattered facts and to build them up into a logical system.

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  Writing   Together   Body  

  Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.5, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature

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  Men   Sin  

  Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.163, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had forbidden, to know what God had not revealed, and to be what God had not intended for him to be

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  Men   Temptation   Desire  

  Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.181, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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