5 Contributions Toward Christian Understanding

Contributions Toward Christian Understanding & Practice

Anyone reading Dake will have many of their religious traditional concerning theology challenged. The helpful thing is that Dake always gives many scripture references for everything he writes. His rule has been to never preach or teach anything for doctrine that he could not support with at least three verses of Scripture. 2 Corinthians 13:1This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. In Dake’s brand of theology everything is clear as is revealed in scriptures. There are no gray areas. Scripture either says it or it doesn’t. What God says He will do, He will do. God has not changed. Every Christian has the right today to receive all the blessings and benefits promised in God’s Word. For Dake, no gifts have passed away. Jesus Christ is the same today as he was while here on this earth (Hebrews 13:8). Where men will exercise faith in the promises of God, men may receive those promises. The Holy Spirit and all of His gifts are as active today as they were in the pages of the New Testament. In essence God is not dead, and if He is alive, He stills manifest himself in the same ways, as He always has (Malachi 3:6). Not one Word of God is void of power. The believer has every right to have a living relationship with a living God.

Contemporary theologians will find a lifetime of research in the many thousands of scriptures Dake gives in support of his theology. In this search you will again and again be driven to the scriptures for understanding and wisdom. But after all is said and done, your conclusions will be based on God’s Word, not Dake’s word. And after all, I have a feeling that is what Dake wanted all along. And for that, we owe Finis Jennings Dake a debt of thanks.

-Theological Summary of Dake’s Writings