Complete Index to the Arthur Custance Library

Tables of Contents by Book

Journey out of Time (1.2 Mb)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I: THE NATURE OF TIME

1. Time: The Psychological Account
2. Time: The Cultural Account
3. Time: The Philosophical Account
4. Time: The Scientific Account
5. When Time Became an Eternity

PART II: THE NATURE OF MAN

Connections
6. Absent from the Body
7. Man: A Hyphenate Being of Spirit and Body: Background Review
8. Soul Re-Emerges in the Laboratory
9.The Interdependence of Spirit and Body: The Biblical and Theological View

PART III: THE NATURE OF THE INTERVAL

10 .The Inherent Immortality of the Soul
11. The Biblical Data
12. Survey of Thought Regarding the Intermediate State
13. Resolution

APPENDIXES
I. Some Particularly Problematic Passages
II. Moses and Elijah
III. Elijah and Enoch
IV. The Calling Up of Samuel

Volume VI. Time and Eternity (2.9 Mb)

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PART I: Time And Eternity: Creation And The Theory Of Relativity

Overall Preface
Introduction
Preface to Chapter 1.
Chapter 1. Historical Background
Chapter 2. The Realtivity of Time in Experience
Chapter 3. Time and Realativity in Creation
Chapter 4. Time Contrasted With Eternity in Scripture
Chapter 5. Time in Redemption.

Part II: Three Trees And Israel's History

Introduction
Chapter 1. History in Three Dimensions
Chapter 2. The Vine and Israel's National History
Chapter 3. The Olive and Israel's Spiritual History
Chapter 4. The Fig Tree and Israel's Religious History
Epilogue

PART III: Between The Lines: An Analysis Of Genesis 1:1,2

Introduction
Chapter 1. Analysis of Genesis 1:l
Chapter 2. Analysis of Genesis 1:2
Chapter 3. The Continuity of Tradition

Appendixes

1. The Meaning of the Word "Day"
2. The Meaning of the Verb "Make" by Contrast With the Verb "Create"
3. The Meaning of the Phrase "The Foundation of the World"

PART IV: The Omnipotence Of God In The Affairs Of Men

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Omnipotence of God in the Universe
Chapter 2. The Omnipotence of God in Our World
Chapter 3. The Omnipotence of God in the History of Israel
Chapter 4. The Omnipotence of God in Personal History
Chapter 5. The Omnipotence of God and Human Responsibility

PART V: The Confusion Of Languages

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Original Unity of Languages
Chapter 2. The Original Speech of Mankind
Chapter 3. The Confusion of Language: Ancient and Modern

PART VI: Cain's Wife And The Penalty Of Incest

Introduction
Chapter 1. Cain Marries a Sister
Chapter 2. Was Cain's Wife of the Line of Adam?

Chronology: From Adam to Christ

Genealogies of the Bible: A Neglected Subject

Volume IV. Part V. Is Man an Animal (780k)

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Introduction
Chapter 1. The Uniqueness of Man
Chapter 2. The Human Brain: Its Size and Its Complexity
Chapter 3. The Erectness of Man
Chapter 4. The Ubiquity of Man ....

Comparative defencelessness of man
Man, the free-roaming creature
Comparative absence of physical variability
Man, the omnivorous
Man, the supreme homeotherm
Conclusion

Chapter 5. Man the Culture Maker

Man the tool-maker
Man the fire-maker
Man the speech-maker
Conclusion

Chapter 6. The Expression of Humanness in Man

Introductory remarks
Home and hearth - uniquely human
The role of the male in the human family
Individuation
The impulse to breed in man and animals
Man's dietary un-wisdom
Susceptibility to disease and slow healing
Man the organizer

Chapter 7. The True Nature of Man in Jesus Christ

Volume I. Noah's Three Sons (765k)

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Editor's Note
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Preface
Chapter 1 - THE THREEFOLD FRAMEWORK

Abraham's Three Wives
The Three Synoptic Gospels
Those Seeking the Lord Jesus Christ
The First Preaching of the Gospel
Those Playing an Official Role in the Crucifixion
Conclusion

Chapter 2 - HISTORY IN CAMEO

The Curse on Ham's Son
The Blessing of Shem
The Enlargement of Japheth

Chapter 3 - SHEM, HAM, AND JAPHETH

Shem: The Worshipper
Japheth: the Philosopher
Japheth's "Enlargement"
Ham: The Inventor
Conclusion

Chapter 4 - MAN'S BASIC NEEDS

Balancing These Three Needs and Capacities
Balancing the Potential of Noah's Three Sons
Epilogue

WHY NOAH CURSED CANAAN

FOREWORD
Who is to be blamed?
Other Cultures Other Ways
A Genetic Factor?
The Curse
The Blessing

APPENDIX - WAS CANAAN A TRUE BLACK?

II. The Roots of the Nations (450k)

III. The Technology of the Hamitic People (250k)

The Seed of The Woman (4.4 Mb)

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Introduction
PART I: THE INTRUSION OF DEATH

Chapter 1. Natural Death: Medical Fact or Legal Fiction
Chapter 2. Death: Event or Process
Chapter 3. Modern Methuselahs
Chapter 4. Longevity in Antiquity
Chapter 5. Longevity in Genesis
Chapter 6. The Original Immortals
Chapter 7. Human Death: A Process of Tragedy
Chapter 8. Death for Animals: Programmed Limitation
Chapter 9. The Trial of Man: and the Price of Failure
Chapter 10. Towards the Identity of the Forbidden Fruit:

(I) According to Tradition

Chapter 11. Towards the Identity of the Forbidden Fruit:

(2) Alcohol as a Paradigm

Chapter 12. Towards the Identity of the Forbidden Fruit:

(3) Some Biblical Intimations

Chapter 13. The Theological Implications of Death

PART II: THE SEED OF THE WOMAN
Chapter 14. Setting the Stage for the Incarnation
Chapter 15. Male and Female Created He Them
Chapter 16. And He Called Their Name Adam
Chapter 17. God Hath Made All of One
Chapter 18. The Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Man
Chapter 19. The Life History of the Seed of the Woman

PART III: WHEN THE WORD BECAME FLESH
Chapter 20. Embodiment: Essential to Humanness
Chapter 21. "A Body Hast Thou Prepared for Me"
Chapter 22. Why Mary?
Chapter 23. "When He Bringeth the First-begotten into the World"
Chapter 24. "In the Volume of the Book it is Written of Me"
Chapter 25. "What is Man, and the Son of Man, That Thou Visitest Him?"

PART IV: TRIUMPH OVER DEATH
Summary Introduction
Chapter 26. Lamb of God and Lion of Judah
Chapter 27. Manhood Perfected
Chapter 28. The Sinless One Becomes a Sin offering
Chapter 29. Why the Demand for Crucifixion
Chapter 30. The Great Day of Atonement
Chapter 31. An Eternity: In Three Hours of Darkness
Chapter 32. Death by an Act of Will
Chapter 33. Resurrection Without Corruption
Chapter 34 .The Presentation of the Blood
Summing up

APPENDIXES
I. Tabulation of Supercentenarians
II. The Two Values of the Saros
III. Criticisms of the Shorter Value of the Saros
IV. Weld-Blundell Prism
V. Genesis 5: Names Viewed as Dynasties
VI. The Combined Genealogies of Matthew and Luke
VII. Heart Rupture: A Possible Cause of the Lord's Death
DOCUMENTATION: REFERENCES AND NOTES

Two Men Called Adam (970k)

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Introduction
Chapter 1. The Problem Stated

Section I Embodiment: and the Incarnation

Chapter 2. Why Embodiment?
Chapter 3. Embodiment: Designed for the Human Spin
Chapter 4. Designed for Vicarious Sacrifice
Chapter 5 .Designed for Substitionary Sacrifice
Chapter 6. Death: Natural or Unnatural?
Chapter 7. The Constitution of a Human Being
Chapter 8. How Did I Come To Be Me?
Chapter 9. The Ghost in the Machine
Chapter 10. A House in Ruins
Chapter 11. A House of Glory
Chapter 12 .The Incarnation: the Invisible Becomes Visible

Section II

Embodiment: and Vicarious Substitutionary Sacrifice

Chapter 13. Two Adams: Fallen and Unfallen Man
Chapter 14. The Dying of Man
Chapter 15. The Dying of Jesus Christ
Chapter 16. The Man Who Raised Himself from the Dead
Chapter 17. We, Too!
Chapter 18 .Conclusion: Cause and Effect
References

Volume IV. Evolution or Creation (3.8 Mb)

Contents

General Preface

Part 1: The Preparation of the Earth for Man

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Concept of Supernatural Selection
Chapter 2. Two World Views: The Christian and the Naturalist
Chapter 3. The Fitness of the Earth
Chapter 4. Foresight and the Concept of Teleology
Chapter 5. The Setting of the Stage
Chapter 6. The Growing Evidence of Creative Activity
Chapter 7. Natural or Supernatural Selection
Chapter 8. Creation and Divergence
Chapter 9. Supernatural Selection: A New Name for an Old Concept
Chapter 10. Catastrophe and Reconstitution
Epilogue

Part 2: Primitive Monotheism and the Origin of Polytheism

Introduction
Chapter 1. From Monotheism to Polytheism
Chapter 2. Some Implications
Appendix: Additional Bibliography

Part 3. Convergence and the Origin of Man

Chapter 1. The Meaning of Convergence
Chapter 2. The Fact of Convergence
Chapter 3. The Implications of Convergence for Human Origins

Part 4: The Survival of the Unfit

Chapter 1. Evolution: An Irrational Faith
Chapter 2. Natural Selection: Fact or Fancy?
Chapter 3. The True Harmony of Natural Communities

Part 5: Is Man an Animal?

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Uniqueness of Man
Chapter 2. The Human Brain: Its Size and Its Complexity
Chapter 3. The Erectness of Man
Chapter 4. The Ubiquity of Man
Chapter 5. Man the Culture Maker
Chapter 6. The Expression of Humanness in Man
Chapter 7. The True Nature of Man in Jesus Christ

Volume II. Genesis and Early Man (3.5 Mb)

Contents

Preface

PART I: FOSSIL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN
AND THE RECORD OF GENESIS

Chapter 1. The Evolutionary Faith
Chapter 2. Faith Without Sufficient Reason
Chapter 3. An Alternative Faith
Chapter 4. Where Did Man First Appear?

PART II: PRIMITIVE CULTURES.
A SECOND LOOK AT THE PROBLEM OF THEIR HISTORICAL ORIGIN

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Changing Climate of Opinion
Chapter 2. Climax at the Beginning
Chapter 3. Cultural Degeneration
Chapter 4. Some Considerations, Some Causes, and Some Conclusions

PART III: ESTABLISHING A PALEOLITHIC I.Q.

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Intelligence of Early Man
Chapter 2. Are Intelligent People Inventive?
Chapter 3. The Intelligence of our Contemporary Ancestors
Chapter 4. Intelligence as Judged by Facial and Head Forms
Epilogue

PART IV: THE SUPPOSED EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SKULL

Chapter 1. The Supposed Evolution of the Human Skull
Appendix. Note on S L. Washburn's Experiment

Part V. THE FALLACY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS

PART VI. WHO TAUGHT ADAM TO SPEAK?

Chapter 1. Who Taught Adam to Speak

PART VII. LIGHT FROM OTHER FORMS OF CULTURAL BEHAVIOR
ON SOME INCIDENTS IN SCRIPTURE

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Rationale of Cultural Patterns
Chapter 2. Illustrations From Other Cultures
Chapter 3. Illustrations in Scripture

The Mysterious Matter of Mind (638k)

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BOOK ABSTRACT
NOTE REGARDING TERMINOLOGY

Chapter one: THE MIND/BRAIN PROBLEM

Chapter two: CARTESIAN DUALISM: MIND AND BRAIN INTERACTION

Chapter three;WHENCE CAME MINDEDNESS?

Chapter four; A THEORY TOO SMALL

Chapter five: LAYING THE EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDATIONS

Chapter six: THE RETURN OF THE WHOLE PERSON

Epilogue

BEYOND PHILOSOPHY
RESPONSE
REFERENCES

Volume III. Science and Faith (1 Mb)

Table of Contents

Preface

PART I: THE UNIVERSE: DESIGNED FOR MAN?

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Power of God as Creator
Chapter 2. The Immensity of God's Handiwork
Chapter 3. The Wisdom of God as Designer

PART II: SCIENTIFIC DETERMINISM AND DIVINE INTERVENTION

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Nature of the Conflict
Chapter 2. Evidences of Mechanism
Chapter 3. Some Tentative Conclusions

PART III: THE MEDIEVAL SYNTHESIS AND THE MODERN FRAGMENTATION OF THOUGHT

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Medieval Synthesis
Chapter 2. The Modern Synthesis
Chapter 3. History Repeats Itself
Chapter 4. The Fragmentation of Thought and Life
Chapter 5. The Chief End of Man--and the Means
Chapter 6. Toward a Christian World View

PART IV: THE FITNESS OF LIVING THINGS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DAUER MODIFICATIONS

Chapter 1. How Is Fitness Acquired?
Chapter 2. The Nature of Dauer modifications
Chapter 3. Evidence for Dauer modifications Below Man
Chapter 4. Dauer modifications in Man

Volume IX. The Flood: Local or Global? (2.2 Mb)

PART I:The Extent Of The Flood

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. An Examination of the Record Itself
Chapter 2. The Extent of the Flood
Chapter 3. Physical Causes, Time, and Location of the Flood
Appendix 1. Flood Geology
Appendix 2. Select Bibliography

PART II: Flood Traditions Of The World

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Nature of the Traditions
Chapter 2. A Selection of Illustrations
Appendix 1. The Search for the Ark
Appendix 2. The Tower of Babel

PART III: The Problem Of Evil: Some Little Considered Physical Aspects

Introduction
The Problem of Evil

PART IV: What's In A Name?

Introduction
Chapter 1. Names as Different Societies Have Viewed Them
Chapter 2. Names as Scripture Views Them

PART V: The Meaning Of Sweat As Part Of The Curse

Introduction
Chapter 1. Animal and Human Sweating
Chapter 2. The Sweating of Fallen Man
Chapter 3. The Uniqueness of the Brow
Appendix. A Guide to the Scientific Literature

PART VI:The Place Of Art In Worship

Introduction: The Molding of a Preference
Chapter l. A Place to Meet or a Place of Worship?
Chapter 2. Just How Beautiful Are Thy Courts, O Lord?
Chapter 3. Liturgy: Help or Hindrance?
Appendix. Of Uninspiring Men and Their Inspiring Works.

PART VII: One Man's Answers To Prayer

Introduction
Chapter 1. Whose Prayers Are Answered?
Chapter 2. What Can We Pray About?
Chapter 3. Some Practical Questions

PART VIII: Christian Scholarship: A Protest And A Plea

Chapter 1. A Protest
Chapter 2. A Plea
Epilogue

Volume VII. Hidden Things in God's Revelation (2.8 Mb)

Contents

Preface

Part I: The Silences Of God

Introduction
Chapter 1. Four Centuries of Silence
Chapter 2. The Silence Is Broken
Chapter 3. Silence Again: For Nineteen Centuries

Part II: The Necessity Of The Four Gospels: Contradiction As An Essential Part Of Revelation

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Nature of the Contradictions
Chapter 2. Which Portrait Is the True One?
Chapter 3. The Basis of a True "Harmony"
Appendix. Further Examples From the Gospels

Part III: Some Striking Fufillments Of Prophecy

Chapter 1. On the Choice of Materials
Chapter 2. Who Can Prophesy?
Chapter 3. Prophetic Fulfillments That Are Indisputable: Or, A Tale of Two Cities
Epilogue

Part IV: Some Remarkable Biblical Confirmations From Archaeology

Introduction
Chapter 1. Of Abraham and His Princess
Chapter 2. Out of the Promised Land and Into It Again: From Joseph to Moses
Chapter 3. From Abraham to Abel: Fact or Fiction?
Appendix. Further Examples

Part V: The Genealogies Of The Bible, A Neglected Subject

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Genealogies of the Old Testament
Chapter 2. The Genealogies of the New Testament

Part VI: A Translation Of Genesis 1:1 To 2:4, With Notes

Preface
A Translation
Setting the Stage: Genesis 1:1, 2 and 3-5
The Creation of Life: Genesis 1 :6-25
The Creation of Man: Genesis 1:26-31
Epilogue: Genesis 2: 1-4

Volume III. Man In Adam And In Christ (2.6 Mb)

Contents

Preface

Part I: The Fall Was Down

Introduction
Chapter 1. What Is Wrong With Man?
Chapter 2. The Problem of the Will
Appendix. Physical and Mental Deterioration

Part II: Nature As Part Of The Kingdom Of God

Chapter 1. God Within Nature
Chapter 2. Man Within Nature
Chapter 3. God Within Man

Part III: The Terms Image And Likeness As Used In Genesis 1:26

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Creation of the Image
Chapter 2. The Image Lost
Chapter 3. The Likeness Achieved

Part IV: The Development Of Personality: The Old And The New

Introduction
Chapter 1. Where Does Personality Come From? When Does It Begin?
Chapter 2. The Components of Personality
Chapter 3. Types of Personality
Chapter 4. The "Normal" Personality
Chapter 5. Change of Personality
Chapter 6. The Nature of Conversion
Chapter 7. The Body of the First Adam and of the Last Adam

Appendixes. 1. Our Part in the New Personality
2. The Temple of His Body
3. Fruits Versus Works

Part V: The Place Of Handicaps In Human Achievement

Introduction
Chapter 1. Where Hindrance Is Help
Chapter 2. Thy Rod Comforts Me?
Chapter 3. A Thorn in the Flesh

Part VI: The Subconscious And Forgiveness Of Sins

Introduction
Chapter 1. What Are the Books That Will Be Opened?
Chapter 2. What Can Be Erased and How?
Chapter 3. Mind Versus Brain
Chapter 4. A Sense of Guilt and a Sense of Sin
Chapter 5. Biblical Forgiveness and Divine Forgetting

Part VII: The Compelling Logic Of The Plan Of Salvation: A Study Of The Difference Between Sin And Sins

Introduction
Chapter 1. Sin and Sins
Chapter 2. The Salvation of the Whole Man
Epilogue

Part VIII: The Two Species Of Homo Sapiens

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Spiritual Nature of the Physical World
Chapter 2. The Ubiquity of Mindedness
Chapter 3. The Two Species of Homo Sapiens

Volume V. The Virgin Birth and the Incarnation (4.1 Mb)

Contents

Preface

Part I: Longevity In Antiquity And Its Bearing On Chronology

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Biological View
Chapter 2. The Records of Antiquity
Chapter 3. The Evidence of Archaeology
Appendixes. 1. The Hebrew of Genesis 6:3
2. The Shorter Value of the Saros

Part II: The Nature Of The Forbidden Fruit

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Some Considerations of Theology and Genetics
Chapter 2. The Testimony of Tradition
Chapter 3. The Testimony of Scripture
Appendixes. 1. The Origin of the Germ Cells
2. The Importance of the Cytoplasm

Part III: If Adam Had Not Died

Introduction
Chapter 1. Is Immortality Possible for Man?
Chapter 2. Were Adam and Eve Immortal?
Chapter 3. The Consequences of Immortality

Part IV: The Virgin Birth And The Incarnation

Introduction
Chapter 1. Virgin Birth
Chapter 2. Incarnation
Chapter 3. Rebirth and Incarnation Anew
Appendix. Mind-less: Yet Alive

Part V: The Trinity In The Old Testament

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Significance of the Pronoun "Us" in the Old Testament
Chapter 2. The Use of the term "Lord" for the Trinity in the New Testament
Chapter 3. The Appearances of the Lord Jesus in the Old Testament
Chapter 4. The Evidence of Two Persons in the Old Testament
Chapter 5. Jesus as Jehovah
Chapter 6. The "Angel of the Lord" and the "Voice of the Lord"
Chapter 7. Specific Old Testament References to the Trinity
Chapter 8. Some Conclusions
Appendixes. 1. The Lord as "the Word"
2. The Lord as "the Promised Seed"
3. Jesus in the Old Testament: A Bibliography
4. Unitarianism and Psychology
5. Corruption of the Original Revelation in Ancient Traditions

Part VI: A Fresh Look At The Meaning Of The Word "Soul"

Preface
Chapter 1. The Spirit and the Body
Chapter 2. The Emergence of the Soul
Chapter 3. Some Problems
Chapter 4. A Crucial Test
Appendixes. 1. Begotten Before All Worlds
2. Notes on the Roman Catholic View of the Soul

Part VII: How Did Jesus Die?

Introduction
Chapter 1. Did the Lord Really Die on the Cross?
Chapter 2. Did the Lord Die of Heart Rupture?
Chapter 3. The Ultimate Mystery of the Lord's Death

Part VIII: The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Historical Aspect of the Resurrection
Chapter 2. The Theological Aspect of the Resurrection
Chapter 3. The Experiential Aspect of the Resurrection

Part IX: The Unique Relationship Between The First Adam And The Last Adam

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Body of the First Adam and of the Last Adam
Chapter 2. The Character of the First Adam and of the Last Adam
Chapter 3. Exploring Further Inferences

The Sovereignty of Grace (2.3 Mb)

Contents


Introduction

1. The Biblical Background

Part One: From The New Testament To The Reformation: A Historical Survey
The fundamental importance of the doctrine of Election
Evidences of it in the Old Testament
Evidences of it in the New Testament
The theology of it expounded by Paul
The adulteration of it in the first centuries

2. Augustine

A sketch of his life and conversion
The emergence of pre-Arminius Arminianism
Augustine's stand against it
The significance of his Retractions
Summary

3. From Augustine to the Reformation

The development of two opposing theologies
Augustine vs. Pelagius: conversion vs. education
Prosper vs. Cassian Semi-Pelagianism and precedent grace
Gottschalk: double predestination
Anselm: freedom of the will
Thomas Aquinas: the grace of good works
Wycliffe against the grace of good works
Summary

4. Luther

The political, social, and religious background of his time...
His confrontation with Erasmus
The Congress of Augsburg
The Roman Catholic Confutation and Melancthon's reply
The Smalcald Articles and the Book of Concord
The seeds of synergism re-appear
The dilemma of sovereignty and human responsibility

5. Calvin and Calvinism

Predestination to Election: the issues at stake
Calvin's life and contribution
The challenge of Arminius and the Five Points of the Remonstrants
Summary: the two opposing theologies

Part Two: The Crystallization Of The Theology Of Grace

Introduction
The five Points and the rationale of their re-arrangement beginning with Total Depravity

6. Total Depravity

The fact of Depravity demonstrated by history
In question are the degree and mechanism

Section One: Definition of Total

The apparent goodness of man: inspired activity in man and animals as evidence of Common Grace
The apparent failure of the Church: natural and supernatural goodness
The constitution of man as a body/spirit entity, and the origin of the soul's defect
How is the corruption of spirit transmitted
How early in life does this occur?
The meaning of the word flesh
Inherited corruption and inherited guilt

Section Two: Definition of Depravity

Sin vs. Sins, i.e., defect vs. fruits
Original Sin, the cause of Total Depravity
The extent of human freedom and responsibility
How the will is set free
The stages of conversion
Life before faith, and the source of that faith
Why eternal life must be the reward of perfection
The Confessions on Depravity

7. Unconditional Election

The several kinds of Election
Foreknowledge: special meaning of the word
Double predestination
Why does God not elect all men
Unconditional Election is a Direct Corollary of Total Depravity

8. Limited Atonement

Evidence for Limited Atonement from Scripture
Some arguments for the universalistic view briefly considered
Sufficiency vs. efficacy: the nature of God's intention
Unlimited Atonement and double jeopardy
Double Predestination and the question of intent or extent of the Atonement (Supralapsarianism and Infralapsarianism)

Universalistic Passages

I Timothy 2:1-6 examined
2 Corinthians 5:14, 15 examined
A universal aspect of the Atonement
1 John 2:1, 2 examined

9. Irresistible Grace

The circumstances of irresistibility
New Birth: process or event
Spiritual conception precedes the new birth
The spiritual gestation period
Repentance the result of the new life conceived but not yet brought to birth
The moment of new birth
Monergism and Synergism in new birth
The necessity of irresistible grace

10. The Perseverance of the Saints

The issues; perseverance or preservation; liberty or license; incentives for a godly life
The Calvinist position, the only logical one
The believer's responsibility to preserve fellowship or salvation--Calvinist Arminian, and Lutheran views
The Roman Catholic conception of baptism as a form of eternal security; (Venial and mortal sins).
The Scriptural basis for preservation: the Father's covenant with the Son; preservation based on faith of Christ. not ours
Scripture used against preservation: the problem of disobedience in sinner vs. saint (punishment vs. chastening; relationship vs. fellowship); meaning of sudden death
Hebrew Christians a special case (Heb. 6:1-6)
The Prodigal Son

Part Three: The Implications For Daily Life

Introduction

11. The Comfort of Calvinism
Sovereignty and the fact of sin and failure
Disobedience: ordained or allowed
The master plan of God like a river in history
Sovereignty as reflected in Israel's history Jacob and Esau, Joseph. The Exodus. possession of the Promised Land. Samson, division of the kingdom; the coming of the Messiah
"Failure" and "success" from God's point of view

12. The Gifts and Calling of God

The believer as an individual and as a member of the body
Sovereignty in the shaping of the saint-to-be
Sovereignty after salvation: ordination of life work (gifts and calling); meaning of "fruit '; purpose of the calling and gifts
Sovereignty and the responsibility of the believer

13. Punishment or Chastening

The perfecting of a saint
The meaning of the word mature
Agents of chastening
Response to chastening
Friend vs. servant; ways vs. acts
Sovereignty and daily disappointments
The maturing process; the crucifixion of self

14. Sovereignty and Responsibility

Evil vs. sin: goodness vs. righteousness
Sovereignty and accountability
God ordains evil but not sin
The separation of deed and motive as a basis of reward and punishment

Part Four: Election And Evangelism

Introduction

15. Why Preach

It is commanded
The "tool." the Word of God. and the "agents"
The target is elect and non-elect alike

16. What to Preach

A problem impropriety of "Christ died for you"
Message to declare Christ: a warning to the non-elect and an invitation to the elect
God's command, not man's ability, is the measure of man's duty: but the Gospel is often rightly presented rather as an invitation than a command
Is God's love exclusive?
"Another" gospel now often presented

17. When to Preach Election

The "offense" of the doctrine of election
Augustine's argument for preaching election
Luther's argument for preaching election
Bucer's argument for preaching election
The arguments of Melancthon and Calvin
The "error" of modern evangelism (Packer)
Calvinism is the Gospel (Spurgeon and Warfield)

Part Five: The Future Of The Non-Elect

Introduction
My personal introduction to the subject
Some certainties and some uncertainties
Bibliography

18. The Nature of the Problem

The two basic issues
The dignity of the offended determines the magnitude of the offense
Intensive vs. extensive punishment: quality vs. quantity
Problem of eternal vs. everlasting
The few saved vs. the many lost

19. Four Alternative Solutions

The denial of any future existence for saved or unsaved
1. Annihilation of the unsaved: Scripture and arguments for
2. Universalism: two classes of universalists; basic false assumptions the necessary sanctions of law; reward inconceivable without punishment

Pros and cons of alternatives 1 and 2

3. Limited Punishment Scripture for and against; if punishment is corrective, it is limited; Origen's view
4. Everlasting punishment: the meaning of everlasting, eternal. etc.; Greek and Hebrew words; time and eternity

20. The Continuing Dilemma

A summary of the four alternatives
The basic issue not punishment. but length of punishment

Part Six: Summing Up

21. The Leaven of Synergism

God only or God and: the constant threat
The "little" as fatal as the "much"--Luther
The legacy of Arminius
There is but one way of salvation: God only
Bibliography

Indexes (not included)

Created April 24, 1997, Modified, May 21, 1997, June 18, 1997, July 5, 1997.