Kessinger Publishing has reprinted An Inquiry Into The Popular Notion Of An Unoriginated, Infinite, And Eternal Prescience by James Jones. Originally published in1828 (203 pgs). Jones was a British Methodist who denied an Eternal Prescience. It’s available in both soft and hard cover. It can be found for about $16.00 but some booksellers are asking more than double that amount. This book was not generally well received at the time. Billy Hibbard quoted from this work in his Memoirs.

 Tom Lukashow

 

Jeff: SP, do you know if the book argues against eternal prescience of future possibilities as well as future actualities?

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"The popular notion of an eternal Prescience not implied in the Scripture doctrine of Omniscience, nor contained in any rational conception of an infinite intelligence."

 

 

"The doctrine of the nunc stans, or eternal now, is perfectly unintelligible; and is inconsistent with sound reason, as it is the plainest declarations of the word of God"

 

 In the Preforatory Dialogue he stated  "The object of my book is to disprove the doctrine of an unoriginated ,infinite, and eternal prescience; and I am sure that I could never discover that doctrine in any part of the law or the gospel"

 

 One thing Jones got wrong was that he predicted the doctrine of an eternal prescience was on the eve of extinction in the Christian world! 

 

Tom

 

 

Tom