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title: 'Van Til: We Thank God For Every Sunny Day'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-07-30
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-van-til-we-thank-god-for-every-sunny-day
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# Van Til: We Thank God For Every Sunny Day

“Christ walks indeed a cosmic road. Far as the curse is found, so far his grace is given. The Biblical miracles of healing point to the regeneration of all things. The healed souls of men require and will eventually receive healed bodies and a healed environment. Thus, there is unity of concept for those who live by the Scriptural promise of comprehensive, though not universal redemption. *While they actually expect Christ to return visible on the clouds of heaven, they thank God for every sunny day*. They even thank God for his restraining and supporting general grace by means of which the unbeliever helps to display the majesty and power of God. To the believer the natural or regular with all its complexity always appears as the playground for the process of differentiation which leads ever onward to the fullness of the glory of God.” — [**Cornelius Van Til**](/authors/cornelius-van-til), “Nature and Scripture,” in N.B. Stonehouse and Paul Woolley, eds., *The Infallible Word: A Symposium by the Members of the Faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary*, ed. N. B. Stonehouse and Paul Woolley (1946, 2002), p. 271-272