NextGenKent

A reaction to Albert M. Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview, 2nd ed. 2005. This was a great book to have read prior to many others and is very foundational to the development of the rest of my thoughts for a course in my doctoral training… and for life. I truly appreciated not only the style and manner this book was written but the biblical scholarship is very solid. I don’t agree with the author’s assessment of consecration (I believe we consecrate and God sanctifies). God won’t sanctify what we don’t consecrate. Consecrating is our setting aside those things that are to be holy. Nevertheless, I have actually vocalized what this book has taught on a couple of occasions—it is that formative and conceptualizing to me. The creation of God was declared ‘good’ and so are the laws God put into place to govern His creation. Those laws haven’t changed but we do need discover them and “have dominion over them”. This is what true science is sup...