Quotes by Hendrikus Berkhof
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When certain concepts are ascribed to God, they are thus not used figuratively but in their first and most original sense. God is not “as it were” a father; He is the Father from whom all fatherhood on earth is derived.
Quoted in Donald G. Bloesch, The Battle for the Trinity: The Debate over Inclusive God-Language, Servant, 1985, p. 25.