Last Things

Death, resurrection, judgment and the life to come.

Essay

Will We Keep Our DNA?

Starting from Bavinck on the resurrection body and Paul's sown grain, David wonders whether we will keep the DNA God built us with, purified of every mutation, so that scars and defects gained in life are taken away.

1 min read

Watercolour of a red leather-bound copy of Reformed Dogmatics lying on a polished library table, with bookshelves and a sunlit window behind.

Notes on Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics · 5

Bavinck 5: Last Things

Notes on the closing pages of Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics, pp. 731-754: the Old Testament as the shadow of the New, the resurrection body as the same body raised, and history as judgment, with David's musing on whether we keep our DNA.

2 min read

Watercolour of three wooden frames on a pale wall, lettered Christology, Eschatology and Sola Scriptura, with a cross, an hourglass and an open Bible.

Worth knowing

Theological Terms

A glossary of theological terms: the branches of theology, the five points of Calvinism, covenant theology, the church, the end times, key Reformed concepts from sola fide to concupiscence, and the major theological and philosophical systems.

8 min read

Watercolour of a fair-haired young man in glasses writing at a desk in a sunlit library, surrounded by stacks of open books.

Open questions

Open Questions

Questions David has not found satisfying answers to: where Scripture says we will be of higher stature than Adam and Eve before the fall, whether sin is more fluid than its familiar categories, and how unequal circumstances can be fair if man must choose God.

1 min read

Sayings on last things

In the collection

The deepest destiny of your life is to descend ever deeper, with quiet yet ever increasing intensity, into the endless love of God. We grow spiritually here on earth only through the embrace of this endless love until it is experienced fully in the life to come.

David Visser