Appendix D
A Dake Dictionary
His Words and the Church’s Words, Side by Side
Finis Dake wrote about God in the church’s own words. He spoke of the Trinity and of one God in three persons, and he called God omnipresent, omniscient and almighty. A reader raised on the creeds hears the old faith in those words. But Dake defined his terms for himself, most of them in Lesson Four of his course God’s Plan for Man, under his own heading “Definition of the Terms Used.”1 His definitions change what the words say. On the doctrine of God they describe three separate divine beings, each with a body of His own. That is tritheism, and the church has always called it heresy.
Each row below takes one word. The second column gives Dake’s own sentence and its page. The third says in plain words what he means by it, and the fourth gives what the church has meant by the same word. The last column names the chapter where the question is argued, with the quotation read in its setting and answered from Scripture.
Under each of Dake’s meanings is a verdict. Heresy marks a teaching the historic church has rejected as contrary to the faith. False teaching marks a claim that contradicts what Scripture plainly says, and error marks a mistaken reading or a guess printed as Bible fact. Where a chapter calls a teaching harmful or serious, the verdict says so too. Ordinary usage means Dake uses the word the way the church does. Use the page as a glossary. When a note in a Dake Bible stops you on one of these words, find it here, read his sentence, and follow the link.
A Note on the Sources
Most rows quote God’s Plan for Man, Dake’s course of fifty-two lessons, from the 1977 printing of the 1949 work, by its printed page numbers.2 He wrote and published the course himself, so its definitions are his own. The rows for “segregation” and “kind” also quote the race note on N.T. p. 159 of his Annotated Reference Bible, from the 1979 Large Note Edition, which Appendix B prints in full. His other Study Bible notes are quoted, with their edition labels, in the chapters that own them.
Ask What the Word Means
When any teacher uses a word about God, ask three things: what he means by it, where he defines it, and whether his definition is the one the church has always used. Dake answered the first two questions in print, with page numbers, so the third can be settled from his own pages. Chapter 5 shows the method at work.
How Dake read the Bible
| Word | Dake’s own words | What he means | What the church has meant | Argued in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Literal | “All Scriptural language is to be taken literally when it is at all possible, or unless there is some clearly stated reason that the language is not to be taken literally.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Thirty-Nine, p. 7823 | Read every sentence as a plain statement of physical fact unless a literal reading is impossible or the Bible itself labels the language a figure. Visions and poems are read the way history is read. Error |
Read each passage in the sense its writer meant, figures included. A psalm is read as a psalm and a vision as a vision, and the plain sense of a figure is the truth it pictures. | Ch. 4 |
God and the Godhead
| Word | Dake’s own words | What he means | What the church has meant | Argued in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| God | “This word simply means deity or divinity and is a general term used of false gods as well as of the true.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 49 | A general word for deity. The word alone does not say how many persons, or how many beings, the true God is. Ordinary usage |
The same. Here Dake’s definition and the church’s agree. | Ch. 6 |
| Godhead | “This term simply means that which is divine.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 494 | Divinity as a quality that more than one being can share. Into this word he then places three separate beings, each with a body of His own. Ordinary usage |
The one divine being who is God, in whom the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are three persons. | Ch. 6 |
| One (echad) | “The Hebrew word for one in such Scriptures as ‘one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4-6) and ‘one God’ (Mal. 2:10) is achad, to unify, collect, be united in one, one in number.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, pp. 49–505 | The word can mean one in number, but he says it is used of unity many times, as in “one flesh” and “the people is one.” Applied to God, it means three separate persons who are one in agreement. Heresy |
In Deuteronomy 6:4 the word confesses that the LORD is one God, one being, against the many gods of the nations. The three persons are that one God, and never three beings who agree. | Ch. 5, 7 |
| Person | “A person is anyone who can act, think, and feel; anyone capable of self-consciousness and self-determination; any individual having legal rights and duties; a rational being with bodily presence, soul passions, and spirit faculties.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 50 | A person is a complete, separate individual with a body, a soul and a spirit of his own. Three persons are three such individuals. Heresy |
Speaking of God, “person” names a distinct who within the one God. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit share one being, so they are three persons and never three beings.6 | Ch. 6 |
| Trinity | “This means the union of three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in one (unified) Godhead or divinity, so that all three persons are one in unity and eternal substance, but three separate and distinct persons as to individuality (1 John 5:7-8; Dan. 7:9-14; Matt. 3:16-17; 28:19; Acts 7:56-59).”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 51 | Three separate divine beings, each with His own body, soul and spirit, one only by agreement. He says it is “perfectly scriptural” to call them “Gods” in the plural (p. 77). Heresy |
One God who is eternally three persons in one undivided being. The Athanasian Creed says it in one line: “not three Gods, but one God.”7 | Ch. 6, 7 |
| Body, soul, and spirit | “God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, each angel and man, and every separate person in the universe has a personal body, soul, and spirit, which are separate and distinct from all others, as defined below.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 518 | Each of the three has His own body, soul and spirit, made the same way as the body, soul and spirit of an angel or a man. Heresy |
God is spirit and has no body or parts. The Son took a human body and soul in the incarnation, and He alone. | Ch. 6, 8 |
The nature of God
| Word | Dake’s own words | What he means | What the church has meant | Argued in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit (the substance) | “Spiritual substance is as real as natural substance, except that it is of a higher type of matter and is governed by higher laws.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 579 | Spirit is a finer kind of matter. A spirit being has a shape, a size and bodily parts, made of a higher grade of substance. Heresy |
Spirit is not matter of any kind. The Westminster Confession calls God “a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions.”10 | Ch. 8 |
| God is Spirit (John 4:24) | “After all, John 4:24 is a mere statement of fact—that God is a Spirit—but it does not define and analyze a spirit.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 5711 | The verse says what class of being God belongs to. It does not say what a spirit is, so it leaves room for God to have a body. Heresy |
The verse tells us what God is. He is not made of matter, so He has no size, no outline and no place. | Ch. 8 |
| Invisible | “We speak of God as being invisible, yet He has been seen as a visible person by many, as we have seen in Point 7, 8 and 9 above.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 6412 | God is unseen because of distance and because our eyes are not yet adjusted, not because of what He is. Many people have seen Him. Heresy |
No creature can see God as He is (1 Timothy 6:16). When God appeared to His servants, He showed Himself in a form they could bear, and He was not showing them His nature. | Ch. 8 |
| Omnipresent | “God is omni-present but not omni-body, that is, His presence can be felt by moral agents who are everywhere, but His body cannot be seen by them every place at the same time. God has a body and goes from place to place like anybody else.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 6113 | God Himself, in His body, is in heaven. What reaches everywhere is a felt presence carried by relationship, the way Dake, writing far from home, felt the presence of his wife and children “hundreds of miles away.” Heresy |
God Himself is wholly present everywhere at once. He fills heaven and earth, and neither one can contain Him (Jeremiah 23:24; 1 Kings 8:27). | Ch. 9 |
| Omniscient | “The Bible makes many simple statements that limit God’s knowledge. There would be no sense to such passages if we do not believe them literally.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 6214 | God knows His plan and what has already happened. He does not know beforehand what free people will do, and He finds things out. False teaching |
God knows all things, every future free choice included. He declares “the end from the beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). | Ch. 10 |
| Foreknowledge | “God foreknew that some would be saved and some would be lost, but who and which ones would believe are not personally included in this foreknowledge.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Thirty-Three, p. 61815 | God knew His plan in advance, and He knew that some would be saved and some lost. He did not know which persons would believe. False teaching |
God foreknows persons, not only plans. He chose His people in Christ before He made the world (Ephesians 1:4; Romans 8:29). | Ch. 10 |
| Omnipotent, Almighty | “Within God’s own realm He is omnipotent, but there are certain spheres in which He does not and cannot operate; and there are certain things He cannot do.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 6316 | God is all-powerful inside a fence. Beyond it lie spheres where He cannot act, and in dealing with free creatures He has had to limit Himself. False teaching |
God can do all that He wills, and nothing outside Himself limits Him. What He cannot do, such as lie, He cannot do because of His own perfect nature (Titus 1:2; Jeremiah 32:17). | Ch. 11 |
| Free moral agency | “Thus God’s grace or love is naturally limited by the free moral agency of man.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Nineteen, p. 34217 | God’s grace and love reach only as far as a man’s will lets them. Dake calls the limit natural, so it lies in the nature of things and not in God’s free choice. False teaching |
People really choose, and grace can be refused. Arminian teaching holds that God freely allows that refusal, and the church counts that view orthodox. No historic confession says God’s grace is limited by nature. | Ch. 11 |
| Immutable, repent | “We speak of God as being immutable and unchangeable, yet He has had to change His plans, set aside His promised blessings, change prophecy that was based upon conditions, and do many things that He did not first intend to do.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 6418 | God’s final plan is fixed, but His plans along the way, His promises and His mind can change when people fail Him. His note on Malachi 3:6 confines “I change not” to “basic character, and to keeping covenant.” False teaching |
God does not change in His being, His character or His purpose, and His promises stand (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 6:17–18). When Scripture says He relented, it describes His unchanging response to people who have changed. | Ch. 12 |
Christ and the Spirit
| Word | Dake’s own words | What he means | What the church has meant | Argued in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emptied Himself | “He laid aside His God-form and emptied Himself of everything that would hinder Him from being a true and real human being and ‘in all things’ like His brethren (Heb. 2:9-18).”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Twenty-One, p. 38719 | The Son kept His divine nature, but in becoming man He “divested Himself of His divine attributes, or at least power to use them” (pp. 386–387). Serious error |
The Son emptied Himself by taking the form of a servant (Philippians 2:7). He added a human nature to His divine nature and veiled His glory, and He remained all that God is (Colossians 2:9). | Ch. 13 |
| Son of God | “He never had a Father God as deity in the ages past, and never became God’s Son in any sense until, as predicted and fulfilled in the above Scriptures.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Twenty-One, p. 38420 | The second person was always God, but He was not always the Son. His sonship began with His human birth. Error |
The Son is eternally the Son. The Nicene Creed confesses Him “begotten, not made,” of one substance with the Father.21 | Ch. 13 |
| In, dwells in | “This word means in union with and when used of persons it does not mean bodily entrance into, except, in the case of disembodied spirits, or demons.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 50“The Holy Spirit dwells IN men only in the sense of UNION WITH, but never by bodily entrance into the human body to live there like an incarnation.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Twenty-Five, p. 45322 | “In” means joined to the same purpose, not present inside. The Spirit dwells in a believer by a union that holds “though there are thousands of miles between them bodily” (p. 50), while the Spirit’s own body is somewhere else. Error |
The Spirit Himself lives in the believer, and through Him the Father and the Son make their home there (John 14:17, 23; 1 Corinthians 6:19). | Ch. 14 |
Creation, heaven, healing and faith
| Word | Dake’s own words | What he means | What the church has meant | Argued in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Replenish | “The fact that Moses by inspiration said that God told Adam to multiply and replenish the Earth proves that there was a social system on the Earth before Adam, for he could not replenish something that had not been plenished before.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Seven, p. 11823 | The King James word means “fill again,” so the earth had been filled once before Adam, by a people now gone. Error |
The Hebrew verb means “fill.” The King James Version itself renders it “fill” in Genesis 1:22, and in 1611 “replenish” meant to fill. | Ch. 15 |
| Spiritual body | “Even resurrected bodies of flesh-and-bone saints are called ‘spiritual’ (1 Cor. 15:44), so spiritual bodies are of materialized, spiritualized substance—something we know nothing about, as far as experience is concerned, at the present time.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, p. 6024 | “Spiritual” names what a body is made of, a finer grade of matter. In his account of eternity the natural peoples of the new earth live on in natural bodies and are never glorified. Error |
A spiritual body is the believer’s own body, raised incorruptible and ruled by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 15:42–44). Every believer receives it, for “we shall all be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51). | Ch. 16 |
| In the atonement | “Healing is in the atonement as proved in Isa. 54:4-5; Matt. 8:16-17; 1 Cor. 11:29-30; 1 Pet. 2:24, and therefore, everyone who has faith in the atonement can get all that it provides for him.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Fourteen, p. 254“Everyone can get healed now—right now by faith—as much as he can be forgiven of sins now.”God’s Plan for Man, Supplement Twenty-Four, p. 94625 | The cross bought healing the way it bought forgiveness, so every believer who has faith can be healed now, and one who is not healed has not believed. Harmful false teaching |
Christ’s death purchased the whole of salvation, the body included. Believers taste that now when God heals, and they receive it in full at the resurrection, “the redemption of our body” (Romans 8:23). | Ch. 17 |
| Faith | “Faith is power, and the man that has faith has power. To the extent to which a man has faith he has power. That is, faith is the key that sets in motion the power of God.”God’s Plan for Man, Supplement Three, p. 10626 | Faith is a force the believer builds up and uses. Enough of it sets God’s power in motion, and his rule for using it is “BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE GOT IT AND YOU SHALL HAVE IT” (p. 288). Harmful false teaching |
Faith is trust in God Himself, who is good and wise and keeps His word (Mark 11:22). Its power belongs to the One it trusts, and it can hold on through a no. | Ch. 18 |
| Revelation | The Bible reveals “all that he needs to know, and we may say, all that he wants to know of the unseen worlds.” Of his own reading of Genesis 6: “to deny it is to deny part of the Word of God.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Six, p. 84; Lesson Eleven, p. 19527 | Revelation covers what Scripture says and also the detailed system he builds from strings of verses, and the system carries the same authority as the verses. Error |
Revelation is what God has actually spoken in His Word: “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us” (Deuteronomy 29:29). | Ch. 19 |
The race note
| Word | Dake’s own words | What he means | What the church has meant | Argued in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segregation | “God commanded Israel to be segregated” and “All nations will remain segregated from one another in their own parts of the earth forever”Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible, 1979 Large Note Edition, N.T. p. 159, reasons 18 and 2128 | God made the races distinct by type and color and commands that they be kept apart, in marriage, in land and in worship, now and forever. Racism; false teaching |
The separation God asks of His people is holiness, coming out from sin and idolatry, and Scripture never applies it to race. The passage Dake cites in his reason 30 says, “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers” (2 Corinthians 6:14). | Ch. 20 |
| Kind | “Every creature was to bring forth ‘after his kind,’ which expression states the law of reproduction of all things.”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Eight, p. 138“Kind means type and color or He would have kept them all alike to begin with”Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible, 1979 Large Note Edition, N.T. p. 159, reason 229 | In the course book the word is used plainly: creatures reproduce their own kinds. In the race note it becomes a law for people, so that races marked by type and color are kinds that must not be mixed. Course book: ordinary usage. Race note: racism |
In Genesis 1 the Hebrew min sorts plants and animals, and it is never used of human races. Mankind was made in the image of God, and every nation comes from one man (Genesis 1:26–27; Acts 17:26). | Ch. 21 |
A word his defenders use
| Word | Dake’s own words | What he means | What the church has meant | Argued in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orthodox | “In our Lord’s time on Earth, to receive the mass of Jewish reasonings, traditions, and interpretations superposed upon Scripture was to be orthodox, but to return to the authority of the Scriptures themselves was to be heterodox (at variance with commonly accepted doctrine in religion).”God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Three, p. 4430 | Orthodox means whatever teaching is commonly accepted, and that can be wrong. He sets it against “the authority of the Scriptures themselves,” so the word lends the creeds no weight. Ordinary usage |
Right belief about God, as Scripture teaches it and the creeds confess it: one God in being and three persons, “not three Gods, but one God” (Athanasian Creed, arts. 15–16). | Ch. 24 |
The words kept whole
The church chose these words with care, so that a believer could say in a sentence who God is. Dake kept the words and changed what they hold. On the doctrine of God his definitions describe three separate beings, the very teaching the creeds were written to shut out.
When the words keep their meaning, they give the believer the God of Scripture. He is one God and not three. He is spirit, with no body waiting in a distant place, and He is present with you wherever you are. He knows the end from the beginning, He can do all that He wills, and He does not change. Dake asked his students to prove every doctrine by plain Scripture, and the chapters linked in each row hold his definitions to that test.
Notes
↑ 1. Finis Jennings Dake, God’s Plan for Man (Lawrenceville, GA: Dake Bible Sales, 1949; 1977 printing), Lesson Four, “I. Definition of the Terms Used,” 49–51. The title page reads “© Copyright 1949 by Finis Jennings Dake” and “© Copyright renewed 1977 by Finis Jennings Dake.” Page numbers in this appendix are the book’s printed page numbers.
↑ 2. God’s Plan for Man was first issued as twenty-six loose-leaf books of two lessons each and later gathered into one volume of more than a thousand pages. The publisher’s Foreword to the 1977 printing says the author spent “over 75,000 hours searching the Scriptures before writing the lesson-set.” Chapter 2 weighs that claim.
↑ 3. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Thirty-Nine, 782, in the lesson on Daniel. The next sentence reads: “Even all the figurative language is to be interpreted by that which is literal.” The publisher’s Foreword to the 1977 printing (unpaginated) states the rule in the same terms: “Take the Bible literally where it is at all possible; if symbolic, figurative, or typical language is used, then look for the literal truth it intends to convey.” Chapter 4 traces the rule to his early work and shows what it does to the doctrine of God.
↑ 4. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, 49 (definition 2, “GODHEAD”). Dake adds that the term is used of Christ in Colossians 2:9 and of “all three persons in the deity” in Romans 1:20. The definition itself is ordinary. What matters is what he says the Godhead contains, which Chapter 6 documents.
↑ 5. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, 49–50 (definition 3, “ONE”). The entry begins on p. 49 and ends on p. 50. Dake spells the Hebrew word achad; this book writes echad. His examples of one in unity are Genesis 2:24 and 11:6, and the entry closes: “Whether one in unity or one in number is the meaning in a particular passage must be determined by Scripture and not by the meaning of the word itself.” Chapter 7 takes up what Deuteronomy 6:4 determines.
↑ 6. The church’s words for this are Greek. Ousia (“being”) names the one thing God is, and hypostasis (“person”) names each of the three who share it. The distinction was settled in the fourth century to say what Dake’s definition cannot: three persons need not be three beings. Chapter 7 explains the terms.
↑ 7. Athanasian Creed, arts. 15–16, traditional English text. Chapter 7 quotes the creed and sets out its ground in Scripture.
↑ 8. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, 51 (definition 9, “BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT”). Compare p. 56: “A spirit being can and does have real, material, and tangible spirit form, shape, and size, with bodily parts, soul passions, and spirit faculties.”
↑ 9. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, 57. If spirit is a higher grade of matter, a spirit can have a body, and John 4:24 no longer stands in his way. Chapter 8 tests the claim.
↑ 10. Westminster Confession of Faith 2.1, traditional English text. Compare the Thirty-Nine Articles, art. I. Both summarize what Scripture teaches; neither stands above it.
↑ 11. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, 57. The dashes are Dake’s.
↑ 12. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, 64. The sentence stands in a list of attributes Dake holds to be limited in practice, beside God’s longsuffering, mercy and impartiality, and its cross-reference is to his earlier points on the appearances of God. On p. 51 he explains the word: “When we use the word invisible we must not think of it altogether in the terms of substance, but mainly as distance—beyond eyesight, beyond natural visibility.”
↑ 13. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, 61. His illustration is on the same page: “While I write I feel the presence of my wife and children who are hundreds of miles away at this time.” See also p. 60: “He is not omni-body; that is, His body is not everywhere at all places at the same time,” and “Spirit beings, including God, Himself, cannot be omnipresent in body, for their bodies are of ordinary size and must be at one place at a time.” The plain statement “God personally dwells in Heaven, not everywhere” is on p. 61. Chapter 9 prints the passage in full.
↑ 14. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, 62. His examples follow on the same page: God “did not know beforehand that men would become so wicked,” that they would plan Babel, how wicked Sodom would be, or “that Abraham would actually proceed to offer up Isaac.” His Bible’s index entry, headed “Omnicient” [sic], says the word “must be understood in a limited sense, the same as omnipotence and omnipresence”: Finis Jennings Dake, Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible (Lawrenceville, GA: Dake Bible Sales), Concordance and Cyclopedic Index, p. 81 (classic setting; newer typeset edition, index p. 101). Chapter 10 quotes the passage at length and answers it.
↑ 15. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Thirty-Three, 618. His definition is on p. 621: “The word foreknowledge simply means the prescience of God or the knowing beforehand certain events that will happen.” Prescience is an old word for knowing beforehand.
↑ 16. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, 63. On the same page he defines the word as “unlimited and universal power and authority within a certain sphere, or of a certain kind,” and lists things God cannot do. Some items on the list are ordinary and orthodox, such as that God cannot lie. On p. 64 he adds, “He naturally has had to limit Himself in His dealings with free moral agents.” Chapter 11 separates the two kinds of “cannot.”
↑ 17. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Nineteen, 342. The subject of “naturally limited” is grace or love, not God’s power. The sentence comes just before his list “Thirty Things Grace Cannot Do.” He defines the phrase in Lesson Twelve, 210: “Free moral agency consists of intellect, sensibility, and free will, and those form the foundation of moral obligation to moral government.” Arminian teaching on grace is one of the positions Chapter 1 lists as within historic orthodoxy.
↑ 18. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, 64. Compare Lesson Three, 46, where he reads Genesis 6:6 to say that “God repented that He had made man” because “sin and rebellion had entered, which made it necessary for God to have a changed attitude toward man.” The Malachi note is in Dake, Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible, classic setting, O.T. p. 930, note “I change not (Mal. 3:6).”
↑ 19. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Twenty-One, 387. The sentence begins, “Paul did not say He ceased being God, but that He laid aside His God-form . . .” His definition is on p. 384: “The kenosis of Christ means that Christ emptied Himself.” Kenosis is the Greek word for emptying, from Philippians 2:7. Dake holds that Christ did not lay aside the divine nature itself, and Chapter 13 weighs what he says was laid aside.
↑ 20. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Twenty-One, 384. The sentence ends as printed.
↑ 21. Nicene Creed, traditional English text of the article on the Son.
↑ 22. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, 50 (definition 4, “IN”), and Lesson Twenty-Five, 453. He calls the idea “the Bible doctrine of interpenetration” and applies it to God in Christ, Christ in the believer, and the Spirit in the believer alike.
↑ 23. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Seven, 118. On the same page he meets the objection himself: “Some argue that the Hebrew word for replenish means fill and not refill, but this proves nothing.” His Bible makes the same argument in “The Pre-Adamite World,” proof 8, which Chapter 15 prints and answers.
↑ 24. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Four, 60. The dash is Dake’s. On the two classes of eternal people, the glorified saints and the natural peoples who live on the new earth, see Lesson Fifty-One, 992–995, and Chapter 16.
↑ 25. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Fourteen, 254, and Supplement Twenty-Four, 946, under the heading “Healing Is Absolutely Sure.” Page 254 prints “Isa. 54:4-5” for Isaiah 53:4–5. The dashes on p. 946 are Dake’s. That healing is provided in the atonement is held across the Pentecostal and charismatic world, and this book does not treat it as error. Chapter 17 argues against the guarantee, and against blaming the sick for their unbelief.
↑ 26. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Supplement Three, 106. Compare Lesson Twelve, 214: “Faith is the making of a blueprint of what you want and working toward that end. Act before you get what you want as you would if you already had it. Visualize it as yours.” The rule in capitals is from Lesson Sixteen, sec. V.10, “The Faith That Takes,” 288. The same teaching runs through Dake’s Bible Truths Unmasked (Atlanta: Bible Research Foundation, 1950), ch. 16, in sec. 11, “Complete Mastery Over the Devil Possible” (120–121), and sec. 15, “No Defeat Possible to Christians” (124). Chapter 18 answers it.
↑ 27. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Six, 84, and Lesson Eleven, 195. The second sentence closes his argument that angels lived with the daughters of men (Genesis 6:1–4).
↑ 28. Dake, Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible, 1979 Large Note Edition (First Printing, August 1979), N.T. p. 159, note “30 reasons for segregation of races: (Acts 17:26),” reasons 18 and 21. Appendix B gives the photographs and the full transcription. Acts 17:26 itself is printed on N.T. p. 144, and its note c points to p. 159. Later printings reworded the note, rewrote it, and finally replaced it with “Separation in Scripture,” which restates about twenty of the old reasons in new words (Chapter 22).
↑ 29. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Eight, 138, and Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible, 1979 Large Note Edition, N.T. p. 159, reason 2. The underlining is on the page. Chapters 20 and 21 print the note’s reasons and answer them.
↑ 30. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, Lesson Three, 44. Compare Lesson Twenty-One, 384: “There is no excuse to teach some theory that is not stated in Scripture, even if it is commonly accepted as orthodox teaching.” Placing Scripture above tradition is the Reformation’s own principle, so the definition is ordinary. Chapter 24 shows what follows when the word is used to set aside the creeds’ doctrine of God.