Quote by Abraham Kuyper... The wheel of sin is certainly revolving, but the brakes are on...

 

In the covenant with Noah especially, which embraced the whole earth and all that has life upon it, this “common grace” assumed a more definite form; and human life, as we know it, is not life in paradise, nor life as it would be if sin had been allowed to work out its final effects, but life in which evil truly predominates and works its corruption, but always in such a way that what is human as such is not destroyed. The wheel of sin is certainly revolving, but the brakes are on.

Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)

Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology (1894)

Regarding Common Grace, there are indeed dynamics that remain mysterious per the constant and comprehensive work by God's hand. At the same time, much can be discerned and learned well within reach of human reasoning upon observation, experimentation, deduction, induction, thus ratiocination towards proposition, conclusion, determination, invention, innovation, production, and more. Consequently, no less apart of God's Common Grace hence no less divinely instituted are such considerations per the cosmos' causalities astronomical, geological, material, physical, biological, social, economical, and so on, all intentionally and harmoniously contributing to the prevention of sin's otherwise total destruction as much as the aforementioned dynamics that remain mysterious. Each dynamic potentially named, defined, categorized, a subset within a subset within perhaps another subset, as a whole an universal set well architected therefore God's Common Grace preserving creation until the Word became flesh and dwelt among us in space and time.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:14 (ESV)

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18, Mt 5:9, 2 Tm 2:15, Cl 3:23

Quote by D.C. Quillan Stone... When reason's expression per individual consent as well dissent are honored...

 

To note, quote taken from my 10th book, 1st of trilogy, entitled 100 Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (Aug 2018).

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18, Mt 5:9, 2 Tm 2:15, Cl 3:23

Quote by D.C. Quillan Stone... Rights are conjured, save the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent...

 

To note, quote taken from my 10th book, 1st of trilogy, entitled 100 Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (Aug 2018).

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18, Mt 5:9, 2 Tm 2:15, Cl 3:23

Quotes by Aldous Huxley and D.C. Quillan Stone... They love their servitude...

 "A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude."

Passage taken from the 1932 book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). Similarly, the below passage taken from my 10th book, 1st of trilogy, entitled 100 Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (Aug 2018), recited yet again in my forthcoming 14th book Gambit & Game...

"The good citizen, the obedient subject and the sacrificial patriot are always the objectives of government, thus externally generous as internally anxious to educate the youth, the preferred means to the coveted ends. For truly coveted are individuals’ life, liberty and property, so much so, government will forcefully take them from individuals or cleverly convince individuals to give them up quite willingly. Hence effective, publicly funded institutions of all educational levels have transformed political objectives into social even religious virtues, that is, to be good, obedient and sacrificial towards policies and privileges arbitrarily, presumptuously contrived and imposed, instead of personal principles and preferences logically, privately concluded and practiced."

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18, Mt 5:9, 2 Tm 2:15, Cl 3:23

Individualism’s Pledge of Allegiance by D.C. Quillan Stone

Individualism’s Pledge of Allegiance

Private property my country, family and friends my countrymen, consequently the sweaty, dirty, bloody, long worn shirt-off-back my flag for upon the rustic post at edge of field hangs that banner `neath my old hat, however tattered, patched, frayed, stained, worked thus ragged while individually, agreeably therefore mutually, consensually bought and bartered... I pledge allegiance to nothing else and to no other!

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To note; as published in my 12th book, 3rd of trilogy, entitled Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (May 2022). Click book cover to peruse and/or purchase...

Bill of Right (singular) by D.C. Quillan Stone

 

    If such understanding forms and foments, then solely amid ceaseless study, ponder and labor, concluding first in part, later in whole, to logically respect then ethically regard, hence fervently declaring then firmly establishing in this manner.

    The propensity, preference and persistence upon observable practice by Each and Every Individual since first reasoned the Specie Human and Peculiar above all other species, thus consistently inclining, constantly insisting the Singular Right to Consent or Dissent regarding Each and Every Matter, indeed without exception as exemplified per unwanted prevention, unacceptable prohibition, undesirable preemption, unwelcomed intervention, unwarranted retroaction by persons ever covetous as well parties ever contemptuous whether private, religious, philosophical, economical, social, political, governmental and more.

D.C. Quillan Stone

10 December 2019

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To note; as published in my 12th book, 3rd of trilogy, entitled Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (May 2022). Click book cover to peruse and/or purchase...

Quote by Herman Bavinck... Jesus and the apostles used it (Scripture) and derived further conclusions from it through reasoning...

After all, the Scripture was not given to us merely to be repeated but to be pondered and expressed in our own language; Jesus and the apostles used it and derived further conclusions from it through reasoning; the Scripture is not a legal code or a systematic theology but the principium of theology; as the Word of God, it binds us not only in its literal words but also in what is legitimately deduced from it. Moreover, no reflection on the truth of Scripture and therefore no theological activity is possible without using such words that do not occur in Scripture. Not only in the doctrine of the Trinity but also every other dogma and in the entire field of theology, expressions and terms are used that are not found in Scripture. With these names, therefore, the autonomy of the Christian, the right of theology, is involved. And finally, these do not serve to introduce new dogmas outside of Scripture or in conflict with it but precisely to maintain the truth of Scripture against heresy. They have much more negative than positive significance. They indicate the lines within which Christian thought must move in order not to lose the truth of revelation at the hands of heresy.

Herman Bavinck (1854-1921)

The Holy Trinity (1895)

Such a posture should not be surprising, nor considered as lowering Scripture's status, rather quite the opposite; unsurprising then elevating. Quite aligned with traditional Logic as the Science of Sciences, if to understand the aforesaid as merely the study then fine-tuning of the mind's innate even unavoidable abilities and propensities. To compare, the athlete does not study and train so to learn the method of running, rather to improve and perfect (as humanly possible) his/her natural yet unrefined ability to run; so it is with the study of Logic.

With that said, Bavinck implies hence proposes Scripture as Primary Source provided and revealed by God the Creator of all creation thereby First Cause of all causes and effects. In this way, Scripture is not reduced to humanity's considerations, rather elevated not to a higher status but the highest regard and reverence from which to deduce then induce, in a word; ratiocination. Accordingly, at least since Aristotle's work on Logic entitled Organon, inquirers and researchers of all sorts of disciplines, including logicians especially, have emphasized the consistent determinations of names, definitions, then categories, later organized per the Porphyrian Tree or the Tree of Porphyry, and later still as genera and species.

When fire and the wheel were first utilized, invented, and later studied, words like incandescent, luminous, else cylindrical, ambulatory were not initially named, defined, then categorized, yet no less applicable and accurate their longstanding associations and representations. So it is with doctrinal words like Trinity that have been long deduced then induced from Scripture as the Primary Source resulting from the First Cause, subsequently then consistently named, defined, and categorized.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18, Mt 5:9, 2 Tm 2:15, Cl 3:23