This post is part of a series walking through the second volume of Abraham Kuyper’s Common Grace Even in Eden, it was God’s plan that man use means. The problem is, Kuyper has already said that God “brings misery as punishment” and that God teaches means to offset misery. Isn’t this a contradiction? Those who lean towards passivity say this. Sin is “rebellion against God,” and “the first condition of receiving grace is that we strictly refrain from all resistance to God... Read more

This post is part of a series walking through the second volume of Abraham Kuyper’s Common Grace As we’ve been seeing the past few chapters, we are obligated to use means to combat the effects of the fall on the world. Even something as simple as clothing proves that, since we must wear it to resist the variations of the weather. We are more and more aware of the effects of the curse–those who would limit it to big events and personal... Read more

This post is part of a series walking through the second volume of Abraham Kuyper’s Common Grace At the end of the last chapter, Kuyper hinted at the question of the relationship between common grace and means. Here, Kuyper argues that creation has two types of creatures in it: those who use means and those who don’t. The latter includes things like plants and such which use no means, as contrasted with animal that do. The “higher” the animal, the more involved... Read more

Kuyper on the animal world as an analogy of humanity's reliance on God's means Read more

Kuyper on the religious aspects of nature. Read more