Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 127:507 (Jul 1970)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous

BSac 127:507 (Jul 70) p. 262

Book Reviews

Are These The Last Days? By Robert Glen Gromacki. Old Tappan, N. J.: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1970. 190 pp. $4.50.

With a firm belief that Christ could come at any moment, the which author answers the question which his title poses in the affirmative.

Each of the thirteen chapters of this book revolves around as many additional questions. With this question-and-answer type approach, the author deals with crucial issues relative to eschatology. Although he follows the normal premillennial, pretribulational, chronological order of events, he does so in a different and thought-provoking way.

Dr. Gromacki, who is Professor of Bible and Greek as well as Chairman of the Division of Biblical Education at Cedarville College, Cedarville, Ohio, is well qualified to write such a book. He has displayed a deep respect for God’s Word and a thorough study of it. Throughout, the approach is positive and not argumentative.

This reviewer feels that a selective bibliography and footnote documentation would have made a good book an even better and more useful one, at least for students.

The volume will serve very well as a textbook for Bible colleges and Christian colleges. Bible-believing Christians will all profit from the reading and study of this book. Are These the Last Days? is highly recommended.

R. P. Lightner

Know What You Believe. By Paul E. Little. Wheaton, Illinois: Scripture Press, 1970. 192 pp. $1.25.

Good things do come in small packages and this is one of them. Every major area of Bible doctrine is covered in this little volume and not superficially at that. The doctrines of the Bible, God, Christ, man, sin, the Holy Spirit, the church, angels, salvation, and future things are all included.

The style is easy to read, and the meaning of the scriptural teaching on these subjects comes through clearly. Occasionally the history of certain doctrines is also included. The author does not give an inch on verbal plenary inspiration, but he does allow for “give” in other areas like sanctification and particularly in eschatology. In these sections there are too many phrases like “some say,” “other Christians believe,” “many Bible scholars teach,” “others view it as,” etc. The criticism is not that the other views are presented, but the reader is not always given in these areas scriptural facts and arguments on which to choose among the views. This kind of approach, while it may allow the book to reach more people, does not reach them with what will ultimately help to know what they believe.

C. C. Ryrie

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