Quotes by Benjamin B. Warfield
Benjamin B. Warfield (1851–1921) — Theologe · Reformiert · USA
Benjamin B. Warfield war ein US-amerikanischer presbyterianischer Theologe und lehrte von 1887 bis 1921 am Princeton Theological Seminary. Er gilt als einflussreichster Systematiker der sogenannten Princeton-Theologie und prägte maßgeblich die reformierte Lehre von der Verbalinspiration und Irrtumslosigkeit der Bibel sowie den Cessationismus. Für Bibelleser bietet sein Werk eine historisch wirkmächtige dogmatische Begründung für die Zuverlässigkeit des Bibeltextes, steht jedoch wegen seines als rationalistisch kritisierten Zugangs auch in der theologischen Diskussion.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Grace & Redemption, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Faith & Trust, Humility & Pride, The Bible & the Word of God, Wisdom & Understanding, Guidance & God's Will, Witness & Mission
Quotes by Benjamin B. Warfield
He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.
Benjamin B. Warfield
Justification is through faith, not on account of faith.
Benjamin B. Warfield
Our faith itself, though it be the bond of our union with Christ through which we receive all His blessings, is not our saviour. We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all.
Benjamin B. Warfield
The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.
Benjamin B. Warfield
There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake, or we cannot be accepted at all. This is not true of us only when we believe. It is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be true as long as we live. Our need of Christ does not cease with our believing; nor does the nature of our relation to Him or to God through Him ever alter, no matter what our attainments in Christian graces or our achievements in behavior may be. It is always on His “blood and righteousness” alone that we can rest.
Benjamin B. Warfield
In the infinite wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into its proper place in the unfolding of His divine plan. Nothing, however small, however strange, occurs without His ordering, or without its particular fitness for its place in the working out of His purpose; and the end of all shall be the manifestation of His glory, and the accumulation of His praise.
Benjamin B. Warfield
A dozen ignorant peasants proclaiming a crucified Jew as the founder of a new faith; bearing as the symbol of their worship an instrument which was the sign of ignominy, slavery and crime; preaching what must have seemed an absurd doctrine of humility, patient suffering and love to enemies – graces undreamed of before; demanding what must have seemed an absurd worship for one who had died like a malefactor and a slave, and making what must have seemed an absurd promise of everlasting life through one who had himself died, and that between two thieves.
Benjamin B. Warfield
It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith.
Benjamin B. Warfield
It give expression not merely to our sense that we have received salvation from Him, but also to our appreciation of what it cost Him to procure this salvation for us. It is the name specifically of the Christ of the cross. Whenever we pronounce it, the cross is placarded before our eyes and our hearts are filled with loving remembrance of not only that Christ has given us salvation, but that He paid a mighty price for it.
Benjamin B. Warfield
There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.
Benjamin B. Warfield
The Greek term has…nothing to say of inspiring or of inspiration: it speaks only of “spiring” or “spiration”. What is says of Scripture is, not that it is “breathed into by God” or is the product of the Divine “inbreathing” into its human authors, but that it is breathed out by God, “God-breathed”, the product of the creative breath of God… When Paul declares, then, that “every Scripture”, or “all Scripture” is the product of the Divine breath, “is God-breathed”, he asserts with as much energy as he could employ that Scripture is the product of a specifically Divine operation.
Benjamin B. Warfield
[Miraculous gifts] were not for the possession of the primitive Christian as such; nor for that matter of the Apostolic Church or the Apostolic age for themselves; they were distinctively the authentication of the Apostles. They were part of the credentials of the apostles as the authoritative agents of God in founding the church. Their function thus confirmed them to distinctively the Apostolic Church, and they necessarily passed away with it.
Benjamin B. Warfield
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