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
