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The Whole Counsel of God, Volume 1: God’s Mighty Acts in the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume recounts God’s mighty acts in the Old Testament. It discloses the theology of the Old Testament within the organic, progressive, historical development of the Bible. Gamble blends a survey of the entire Old Testament with discussions of topics as diverse as the canon, days of creation, faith and reason, covenants, the Ten Commandments, Old Testament ecclesiology, the nature of God,...

The reasons for this negative response to God’s own claims are diverse. Two of the reactions are sometimes called the irrationalist and the rationalist responses. The irrationalist person responds to God’s claims armed with an assumption that “pure chance” guides all of reality. There can be no God in control of the universe. On the other hand, the rationalist responds with an assumption that reality is governed not by a personal God, but by impersonal laws—laws that he fully understands (and thus
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