Easy Summaries of John Nelson Darby on God’s Grace, the Rapture, Dispensations, the true Church etc.
Civilisation and Man’s Natural state
Civilisation is the artificial and polished life where people are associated by common recognised rules.
Civilisation is the artificial and polished life where people are associated by common recognised rules. They have developed of skills and mental faculties. This is in contrast with men barbarism with men in natural or ‘savage’ groups, acting on natural impulses and passions. Nevertheless, mental faculties the natural state, and the impulses and passions remain in the civilised. If these are let loose, unrestrained by common recognised civil rules, we have revolution, war, and so forth.
Barbaric State
Civilised State
Origin – Adam after the fall
Men are personally free
Men act as individuals
Social and family groups are small
Barbarism was the natural effect of Adam’s state when he had lost God
Origin – Cain
Men are more dependent on each other
Men are more closely united
Men are gregarious (more than social)
Civilisation began when Cain built a city
Civilisation uses human faculties and the earth’s resources to make the world a pleasant without God
Once the ruler of the synagogue at Corinth
Then a co-writer of a letter by Paul - just a brother - no longer an official
Now a blogger seeking to serve the Lord by posting some words that the Lord has given His Church.
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