Godless or godly
“Culture, then, may be either godless or godly, depending on the spirit which animates it. Sin has not destroyed the creaturely relationship of man to his Maker, who made him a cultural creature with the mandate to replenish and subdue the earth. Sin has not destroyed the cultural urge in man to rule, since man is an image-bearer of the Ruler of heaven and earth. Neither has sin destroyed the cosmos, which is man’s workshop and playground. Culture, then, is a must for God’s image-bearers, but it will be either a demonstration of faith or of apostasy, either a God- glorifying or a God-defying culture.” (Henry Van Til, The Calvinistic Concept of Culture, p. 23)
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