Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 138:549 (Jan 1981)
Article: Book Notices
Author: Anonymous

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Book Notices

What Can God Do? By Frederick Sontag. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1979. 127 pp. $6.95.

This book is about what God can do and what He cannot do. It is one of the most unbiblical, subjective, and incredible descriptions of God this reviewer has ever seen. According to Sontag, God is able to suffer, use force, worship (Himself), risk rejection, stay behind the Gospels (where one cannot find Him), leave man with his own tasks, and even selfdestruct! What God cannot do is even more astounding. God is not able to reject anything, to control the whole universe, to avoid evil. Further, He cannot predict the future or be very religious! The author does not document or support his views with sources or Scripture (thankfully!) but simply spins it out of the confused confines of his own imagination.

N. L. Geisler

Man: Ruined and Restored. By Leslie B. Flynn. Wheaton, IL: SP Publications, Victor Books, 1978. 132 pp. Paper, $2.95.

This book is a thorough study guide on the biblical doctrine of man. The chapters give accurate and biblical answers to questions such as these: What is man? Where did man come from? What was man like at the beginning? What is sin? Etc. The work is recommended as a useful tool in studying and teaching this doctrine.

F. R. Howe

Up with Creation! Edited by Duane T. Gish and Donald H. Rohrer. San Diego: Creation-Life Publishers, 1978. 341 pp. Paper, $3.95.

This book is a collection of articles printed in Acts and Facts during 1976 and 1977. Many of the articles in this publication of the Institute

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for Creation Research record debates held between special creationists and evolutionists on college campuses. The value of this information is that it highlights current interpretations of evolutionary theory, and shows how capable Christian scholars function in response to a wide sphere of issues dealing with ultimate origins, and the Bible and science.

F. R. Howe

That You Might Believe. By Henry M. Morris. San Diego: Creation-Life Publishers, 1978. 188 pp. Paper, $4.50.

This is a revised edition of the author’s first book, written in 1946. It includes a helpful foreword written by Richard H. Seume, chaplain of Dallas Seminary and the author’s pastor when that first edition was written. Readers of Bibliotheca Sacra are well aware of Morris’ numerous writings on the Bible and science. Treated here in an updated manner are such subjects as modern science and the Bible, the theory of evolution, modern science and the Flood, the Bible and histor...

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