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Dr. John C. Whitcomb, Th.D
World renowned Bible Scholar and Conference Speaker
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Dr. John C. Whitcomb, Th.D
World renowned Bible Scholar and Conference Speaker |
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Nov 7-9, 1997, Dr. John Whitcomb, co-author with Dr. Henry Morris of "The Genesis Flood" will be the featured speaker for The Second Annual South Dayton Bible Conference at the Centerville Grace Brethren Church. The church is located at 410 E Social Row, just East of Route 48, one mile south of Centerville. Phone (937) 885-2029. |
| Date/Time | Topic | Notes |
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| Friday, November 7, 7:00 p.m. | Current Theological Trends | Especially for pastors and church leaders |
| Saturday, November 8, 8:00 a.m. | Colossians 3:1-4 and Victorious Christian Living | Breakfast meeting, men only |
| Saturday, November 8, 7:00 p.m. | The Creator of the World | Public invited -- Freewill offering will be received |
| Sunday, November 9, 9:30 a.m. | Defending the Bible: A Presuppositional Apologetic | Public invited |
| Sunday, November 9, 10:30 a.m. | The Genesis Flood and the Final Judgment of the World | Public invited -- Freewill offering will be received |
| Sunday, November 9, 7:00 p.m. | The Genesis Flood and Modern Geology | Public invited -- Freewill offering will be received |
He was graduate with honors from Princeton University in 1948 with a B.A. degree, majoring in ancient and European history. At the end of his freshman year at Princeton, he was led to Christ by Donald B. Fullerton, a former missionary to India.
In 1951, he graduated from Grace Theological Seminary with the BD degree (high honor) and received the Th. degree in 1953 and the Th.D. degree in 1957 from the same institution. From 1951 to 1990, he taught in the Department of Old Testament and also in the Department of Christian Theology, in which he served as chairman for many of these years. for twenty years he also served as Director of Doctoral Studies, and for ten years as Editor of Grace Theological Journal.
From 1962 to 1990, he was President of the Board of Spanish World gospel missions, inc.; and served on the Board of Trustees of Grace Brethren Foreign Missions (Rev. John W. Zielasko, Executive Director) for twenty years, several of these as Chairman of the Board.
Dr. Whitcomb lived in China three years (1927-30), served his country in Europe (1944-46), helped in the establishment of a church in Puerto Rico under the auspices of Grace Brethren Foreign Missions (1958-59); and has lectured in Canada, Latin America, Western Europe, Central African Republic, the Far East, and in most states of the United States. he has been on two study tours of the Holy Land (1952, 82).
He authored a defense of the Book of Daniel entitled, Darius the Mede (1959); co-authored with Dr. Henry Morris a defense of the universality of the Flood entitled, The Genesis Flood, (40th printing, 1996); contributed to the commentaries on Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther in the Wycliffe Bible Commentary (1962); published charts on Old testament chronology (over 300,000 in print); co-authored with Dr. Donald DeYoung a book entitled, The Moon, Its Creation, Form and Significance (1978), in 1979 authored Esther: The Triumph of God's Sovereignty, in 1985 a commentary on Daniel (both by Moody Press), and The Early Earth: An Introduction to Biblical Creationism (1986); The World That Perished: An Introduction to Biblical Creationism (1988), and co-authored with Dr. John Davis a volume entitled, Israel: A Commentary on Joshua - 2 Kings (combined paper edition, 1989), all three books by Baker Book House. He has also produced 19 audio albums and eleven video courses.