The world God made, upholds and governs, and our place in it.
Notes on Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics · 3
Notes on Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics, pp. 277-375: angels, providence and secondary causes, humanity between angels and animals, Adam as head of humanity, sin as a parasite and privation of the good, and the moral law as the standard of sin.
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Notes on Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics, pp. 158-257: God's attributes, time and eternity, sin as privation, God as truth, analogies for the Trinity and predestination, with David's notes on free will, honest speech and fairness.
Essay
David pictures creation as a flawless vase broken by an outside force, and argues that humanity, made in God's image with the ability to withstand any pressure or yield to it, was not made imperfect by being able to deviate.
Essay
David lists seventeen arguments for God's existence, beginning with the Forest Argument, that every answer to the question rests first on faith, and moving through the cosmological, moral, ontological and fine-tuning arguments to the argument from brokenness.
We are constantly living in the present. It is within my mind that I measure time. I must not allow my mind to insist that time is something objective. When I measure time I measure something that is in the present of my mind. Either this is time or I don't know what is.
God gives us hardship to increase our endurance and remind us of our need for him. We then fall into trust in God instead of ourselves. Why then do we get any good things? Just as marriage is a crutch God gives us to ease the burdens of our sin so too are all good things a gift to release burden but the good we gain from striving after Christ is to show here on earth the fruit of living for Christ so that we might not have to trust fully on the reward for earthly endurance we receive in heaven.
There was no death before the fall. Therefore dinosaurs could not have died before Adam and Eve.