Purchase the book here: https://www.heritagebooks.org/products/the-christian-family-bavinck.html The Christian Family Chapter 1 Outline 1. The six days of creation were God’s work project to make creation humanity’s home. a. The earth was first untamed and empty. b. God separated light/dark, water/land, day/night, month/years, then filled the earth. c. The earth was formed by God to be inhabited ( Isa. 45:18 ). d. God created humanity as distinct sexes, man & woman, to inhabit/rule the whole earth. e. This alone (in Gen. 1 ) tells us the origin, essence, & destiny of humanity; the rest builds on this. 2. Humanity is body & soul/spirit; body like the earth, soul like heaven, together a unique creature. a. Mankind is the image/likeness of God, His child and race, as male and female. b. Man/male/Adam was designed lonely, even with God’s presence, and this was “not good”. c. So, God ga
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