by Kevin Bauder | Oct 4, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
In spite of the fall, humans still have the responsibility to exercise dominion over the earth and to subdue it. Sadly, none of us has ever seen unfallen people exerting dominion over an unfallen world. Nobody knows exactly what that would have looked like. Instead,...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 20, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
[This essay was originally published on January 21, 2011.] Civility is in vogue again, at least for a few moments. The nation has been traumatized by another mass murder. A psychopath in Arizona cut down half-a-dozen innocent people, including a federal judge. A...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 13, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
God has entrusted humans with the responsibility of managing the created order. He made it and brought it to a significant level of order and utility, but then charged them with exercising dominion, thereby increasing its order and usefulness. While humanity has...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 6, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
Sometimes human beings undervalue the created order. When that happens, they may bring disorder into the natural world because they begin to prey upon creation. This behavior is a reversal of God’s intention, which was that humans should continue the work of...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 30, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
During creation week, God brought the world from a relatively lower level of order to a relatively higher level of order. In an unfallen world, humans would have continued this process of ordering creation as God’s sub-regents, exercising dominion and subduing...
