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Common Grace: God’s Gifts for a Fallen World, Volume 2: The Doctrinal Section is unavailable, but you can change that!

Common Grace is often considered Abraham Kuyper’s crowning work, an exploration of how God expresses grace even to the unsaved. Kuyper firmly believed that though many people in the world will remain unconverted, God’s grace is still shown to the world as a whole. The second volume of Common Grace contains Kuyper’s doctrinal exploration of the impact and implications of this aspect of Reformed...

To clarify this, compare the actions of the angels in Sodom, in the midst of the iniquity that had broken out there in terrible form, with the appearance of the angels in the fields of Bethlehem to proclaim in their heavenly chorus God’s pleasure with man. In Sodom everything was repugnant. There was nothing but abomination and human disgrace. In the fields of Ephrathah, by contrast, there was the enchantment of the beauty of nature, appealing scenes of human life; there was nothing repulsive, and
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