Cornelius Plantinga Quotes

The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what God had put asunder. Like some devastating twister, corruption both explodes and implodes creation, pushing it back toward the “formless void” from which it came.

Cornelius Plantinga

• God
• Together
• Sin
• Joined
• Corrupts
• Puts Asunder

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• The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what God had put asunder. Like some devastating twister, corruption both explodes and implodes creation, pushing it back toward the “formless void” from which it came.

  

  Cornelius Plantinga
  • God
  • Together
  • Sin