Essential Human Nature: What is it? The beginning of a discussion from Bavinck's Ethics
09 10 2020 Essential Human Nature The content Bavinck starts by saying, “How we must live is determined by our answers to the fundamental questions of our origin, purpose and destiny.” Page 33 Obviously in his introduction he realises how non-Christian dogma look up, humanness as opposed to the creation Story. Humanity was created good; There was a fall and through the second Adam (Jesus) we are provided with the gift of new righteousness and holiness. The Christian confession directly contradicts the contemporary tendency, through the conflict with the ego which strives for autonomy from the restrictions of the external world and matter; Overcoming nature by reason and spirit. At the end of Page 33 Bavinck says, “We believe that the image of God belongs to the essence of humanity: humanity apart from God.” So, there are some pointers for us. Before we move on and look at the internal content of Reformed ethics Volume 1 let us look at the basic content of chapte