Chapter 22: Appendix C: Key Quotes from Dake’s Works with Sources

Note: All quotes are presented exactly as written in Dake’s original texts to ensure accurate representation of his teachings. Page numbers from “God’s Plan for Man” refer to the scanned PDF versions where available.

Quote: “God has a personal spirit body… shape, image, likeness, bodily parts such as, back parts, heart, hands and fingers, mouth, lips, tongue, feet, eyes, hair, head, face, arms, loins, and other bodily parts.”

Source: Dake Annotated Reference Bible, Note on Genesis 1:26

Quote: “God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each has His own personal spirit body, personal soul, and personal spirit in the same sense that each human being, angel, or any other being has his own body, soul, and spirit which are separate and distinct from all others… The body of any being is the outward form or house in which the soul and spirit dwell.”

Source: God’s Plan for Man, Part One, Lesson One, Chapter: “The Trinity of God,” Subheading: “Body, Soul, and Spirit,” page 51

Quote: “INCARNATION means a person assuming a body which he takes as his very own dwelling inside that body and not existing in any other place outside the body while he has taken to dwell in it (Ps. 40:6-10; Heb. 10:5-10).”

Source: God’s Plan for Man, Part One, Lesson One, Chapter: “The Trinity of God,” Subheading: “Incarnation,” page 51

Quote: “The doctrine of the Trinity is simply stated as one in unity, not in number. There are three separate and distinct persons, each having His own personal spirit body, personal soul, and personal spirit.”

Source: Dake Annotated Reference Bible, Note on Deuteronomy 6:4

Quote: “The word one is explained in Point I, 5, 4, and Point II, 6 above, for which see. Some facts concerning the Trinity are: (1) One is used in the sense of unity in Point I, 5, 6 above. For full and complete proof we shall wait until Lesson Twenty-seven. Here we may say that the only sense in which THREE can be ONE is the sense of unity, and ONE PERSON cannot be THREE PERSONS in any sense. So the old idea that God exists as three persons in one person is not only unscriptural, but it is ridiculous to say the least.”

Source: God’s Plan for Man, Part One, Lesson One, Chapter: “The Trinity of God,” page 65

Quote: “The Trinity – 18 fallacies (p. 7):
1. That there is only one person of one being called God
2. That there is a difference in meaning between the terms Godhead and God
3. That the terms Father, Son, and Holy Spirit refer to three manifestations of one person or one being…”

Source: Dake Annotated Reference Bible, New Testament page 280

Quote: “God is NOT omnipresent in body but in Spirit through the Holy Spirit.”

Source: Dake Annotated Reference Bible, Note on Jeremiah 23:24

Quote: “The fact that God came down from heaven to earth on different occasions proves He moves from place to place and is not omnipresent in body, but in Spirit through the Holy Spirit.”

Source: Dake Annotated Reference Bible, Note on Genesis 11:5

Quote: “30 reasons for segregation of races: (Acts 17:26)

1. God wills all races to be as He made them. Any violation of God’s original purpose manifests insubordination to Him (17:26; Rom. 9:19-24)
2. God made everything to reproduce ‘after his own kind’ (Gen. 1:11-12, 21-25; 6:20; 7:14). Kind means type and color or He would have kept them all alike to begin with
3. God originally determined the bounds of the habitations of nations (17:26; Gen. 10:5, 32; 11:8; Dt. 32:8)
4. Miscegenation means the mixture of races, especially the black and white races, or those of outstanding type or color…”

[List continues through 30 points]

Source: Dake Annotated Reference Bible, Note on Acts 17:26, New Testament page 159

Quote: “All nations will remain segregated from one another in their own parts of the earth forever… Even in heaven certain groups will not be allowed to worship together.”

Source: Dake Annotated Reference Bible, Note on Acts 17:26, New Testament page 159

Quote: “We mean by ‘original creations’ the first creation of the heavens and of the Earth and all things therein. This was done ‘In the beginning’ or in the dateless past (Gen. 1:1)… The creation of the pre-Adamite world included the first inhabitants of the Earth, called ‘nations’ over whom Lucifer ruled (Isa. 14:12-14), ‘man’ who built cities (Jer. 4:23-26), and ‘the world (Greek, kosmos, social system) that then was’ (2 Pet. 3:5-8). The pre-Adamites were Earthly creatures as proved by the fact that they were drowned in the pre-Adamite flood.”

Source: God’s Plan for Man, Part Two: “Ages and Dispensations” section, unnumbered pages

Quote: “THAT THERE WAS A UNIVERSAL FLOOD ON EARTH THAT DESTROYED ALL LIFE LONG BEFORE THE FLOOD OF NOAH? This is clear from Gen. 1:2; Ps. 104:5-9; 2 Pet. 3:4-6 where we read of the Earth being flooded which caused ‘the world [social system] that then was’ before Adam to perish. Gen. 1:2 reveals that this flood was on the Earth before the first day of the six days work of God in Gen. 1:3-2:25.”

Source: God’s Plan for Man, Part Two, Lesson Eight, page 112

Quote: “That Lucifer had control of this pre-Adamite kingdom and ruled this social order is clear from such verses as Isaiah 14:12-14… In these verses we see that Lucifer had a throne (which implies dominion and rulership), and that his rulership extended over territory which existed, not in heaven (since his desire was to ‘ascend into heaven’) but on the Earth.”

Source: God’s Plan for Man, Part Two, Lesson Eight, Chapter: “The Pre-Adamite World,” Subheading: “Lucifer’s Kingdom”

Quote: “They are called nations in Isaiah 14:12. The Hebrew word goy is translated Gentiles, nations, people, and heathen hundreds of times, but never angels. It follows then that the nations Lucifer ruled over must have been made up of men.”

Source: God’s Plan for Man, Part Two, Lesson Eight, Chapter: “The Pre-Adamite Nations”

Quote: “A dispensation as applied to the various ages means a moral or probationary period in history in which God tests free moral agents according to a fixed standard of conduct.”

Source: God’s Plan for Man, Part Two: “Ages and Dispensations”

Quote: “God has always had a plan for man. This plan has been carried out in successive stages from Adam to the present and it will continue to the end of the Millennium and the beginning of the perfect age.”

Source: God’s Plan for Man, Part Two, Lesson Seven, Chapter: “Dispensations”

Quote: “[During the Millennium] The daily sacrifice will be offered morning and evening forever… These offerings will be memorial in nature, looking back to the cross as the offerings before the cross looked forward to it.”

Source: The Rapture and the Second Coming of Christ, Chapter: “The Millennial Temple”

Quote: “Angels have been a popular subject in recent days… The Bible is the only book in the world that gives insight into the heavenly and infernal worlds… We mean by the spirit world the various spirit beings that inhabit the material worlds around us.”

Source: Heavenly Hosts, Chapter 1: “An Introduction to Angels,” pages 1-2

Quote: “The words angel and angels are used 297 times in the King James Version of Scripture. Coming from a root meaning ‘to dispatch as a deputy,’ the Hebrew word mal’ak means messenger or ambassador, specifically of God.”

Source: Heavenly Hosts, Chapter 1: “An Introduction to Angels”

Quote: “The Hebrew word for one is echad, meaning a united one, not an absolute one… It is used of two becoming one flesh (Genesis 2:24)… The same word is used in Genesis 2:24 of two persons becoming one. It should be clear that the word one denotes unity, not the numeral one.”

Source: Dake Annotated Reference Bible, Note on Deuteronomy 6:4

Quote: “God’s head (Daniel 7:9), His hair (Daniel 7:9), His face (Exodus 33:20), His eyes (2 Chronicles 16:9), His ears (Psalm 34:15), His nose (Psalm 18:8), His mouth (Numbers 12:8), His lips (Job 11:5), His tongue (Isaiah 30:27), His hands (Psalm 8:3), His fingers (Exodus 31:18), His arms (Isaiah 51:9), His feet (Nahum 1:3), His heart (Genesis 6:6), His bowels (Isaiah 63:15), and His back parts (Exodus 33:23).”

Source: Dake Annotated Reference Bible, Various notes compiled on God’s physical attributes

Quote: “In all these passages the English words ‘everlasting,’ ‘forever,’ ‘perpetual,’ etc., are used. The same words are used for eternity of God, so if one is eternal the others must be.”

Source: Revelation Expounded, Chapter on “Eternal Kingdom”

Historical Note: Finis Jennings Dake (1902-1987) served as pastor in various Assemblies of God churches from 1927-1936 before his credentials were revoked. His ministerial record shows appointments in Texas, Oklahoma, and Illinois.

Source: Assemblies of God ministerial records, credential card #1356

Note on Source Citations

All quotes are taken directly from Dake’s published works. Where specific page numbers are available from the original printed editions, they have been included. For the PDF versions of “God’s Plan for Man” that were split into multiple parts for uploading, references indicate the Part, Lesson, Chapter, and Subheading to enable location of the quotes regardless of pagination differences.

Primary Sources Used:

• Dake Annotated Reference Bible (1963 edition)
• God’s Plan for Man (1949)
• The Rapture and the Second Coming of Christ (1950)
• Revelation Expounded (1950)
• Heavenly Hosts (posthumously published, 1995)

Important Disclaimer:

These quotations are presented for the purpose of theological examination and critique. They demonstrate significant departures from orthodox Christian doctrine that readers should be aware of when using Dake’s materials. The extensive documentation ensures that Dake’s actual teachings are represented accurately and cannot be dismissed as misrepresentation.