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I used an old Scofield reference Bible for more than 20 years. Yes, there are some problems in the notes that criticize the text of the King James Bible. However, if you know your Bible well enough, the notes should not throw you off. I don't really use it so much anymore. I just use a plain text Bible for reading, and a note takers Bible for preaching. I'll still pull my old Scofield out for study helps. His works on the covenants and Dispensations are absolutely wonderful. Know your Bible, brothers and sisters. There is absolutely no study Bible that is perfect. Scofield, Thompson Chain, Ryrie, Ruckman's, Common Man's Reference, they are all flawed somewhere in the notes. Those are man's works. Stick to the text. If the plain sense makes good sense, seek no other sense else all becomes nonsense. God bless you in your walk with Him through the Scripture.
Scofield says Revelation chapters 6 through 19 are about the tribulation period and the church had been raptured because yhe word "church" is not mentioned in those chapters. The word "church" is not mentioned in three gospels and other New Testament books. His teaching blinded pastors and others to church history in some of those chapters.
@@robertobriant3621 excellent comment, I agree totally. I personally use now Ruckman study Bible, but it has flaws too. I like preachers who defend KJB.
@@anthonylowder6687 Anthony my brother i do believe you are saved. Anthony we are the church me and you we are the bride of Christ. Ill see you in glory friend
Who is now the King of Israel in John 1:49? Is the King of Israel now the Head of the Church, and are we His Body? Why did God allow the Romans to destroy the Old Covenant temple and the Old Covenant city, about 40 years after His Son fulfilled the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34 in blood at Calvary? Who is really teaching “Replacement Theology” ? (Did God fulfill His promises to the Jewish people at Calvary? Matthew 26:28, John 19:30) The advocates of modern Dispensational Theology often accuse others of promoting “Replacement Theology”, or some may even say “Antisemitism”. What does the Bible say about their accusations? 1. Who is replacing Christ as the seed of Abraham through which all the families of the Earth would be blessed in Genesis 12:3, with Abraham’s modern descendants? (See Paul’s interpretation in Galatians 3:8, 3:16.) 2. Who is replacing the one people of God in John 10:16, with two peoples of God ? 3. Who is replacing the one seed (Christ) in Galatians 3:16, with the many seeds? 4. Who is replacing the children of the promise in Romans 9:8, with the children of the flesh? 5. Who is replacing the faithful “remnant” of Israelites in Romans 11:1-5, with the Baal worshipers? 6. Who is replacing the word "so" in Romans 11:26, with the word "then"? 7. Who is attempting to replace the Church made up of all races of people, with one made up only of Gentiles? Why did Peter address the crowd as “all the house of Israel” in Acts 2:36, when about 3,000 Israelites accepted Christ on the Day of Pentecost? 8. Based on Hebrews 9:15, the New Covenant cannot be separated from the Messiah’s death. Is the covenant in Daniel 9:27 connected to the Messiah’s death in Daniel 9:26. Is the covenant with the “many” in Daniel 9:27 the same covenant with the “many” in Matthew 26:28? If it is, some have replaced the New Covenant in Daniel 9:27 with a future covenant made by an antichrist not found in Daniel chapter 9. (See the 1599 Geneva Bible used by the Pilgrims.) 9. Those promoting the Two Peoples of God doctrine of Dispensational Theology often accuse others of teaching “Replacement Theology”, but are they the masters of it? Are they promoting a form of Dual Covenant Theology based on race? (See “genealogies” in Titus 3:9) Is the most important genealogy in the Bible found in Matthew 1:1? Is God's Son the ultimate fulfillment of Israel? Why has the modern Church done a pitiful job of sharing the Gospel with modern Orthodox Jews? Why would someone tell them they are God's chosen people and then fail to share the Gospel with them? Who is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15? Who is the "son" in Psalm 2? Who is the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53? Who would fulfill the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34? Who would fulfill the timeline of Daniel chapter 9 before the second temple was destroyed? Why have we not heard this simple Old Testament Gospel preached on Christian television in the United States on a regular basis? 10. Watch the RU-vid video “Genesis of Dispensational Theology” to see the origin of this man-made doctrine, which is less than 200 years old. It was brought to the United States about the time of the Civil War by John Nelson Darby. The doctrine was later incorporated into the notes of the Scofield Reference Bible, and then spread through much of the modern Church. Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas Texas was created in part to promote John Darby’s Two Peoples of God doctrine of Dispensational Theology. Lewis Sperry Chafer, the first president of Dallas Theological, had the following to say about the difference between Israel and the Church: “The dispensationalist believes that throughout the ages God is pursuing two distinct purposes: one related to the earth with earthly people and earthly objectives involved which is Judaism; while the other is related to heaven with heavenly people and heavenly objectives involved, which is Christianity.” Lewis Sperry Chafer, Dispensationalism (Dallas, Seminary Press, 1936), p. 107. Chafer states that, ‘Israel is an eternal nation, heir to an eternal land, with an eternal kingdom, on which David rules from an eternal throne,’ that is, on earth and distinct from the church who will be in heaven.” Lewis Sperry Chafer. Systematic Theology. 1975. Vol. IV. pp. 315-323. John Walvoord, another prominent voice of Dallas Theological stated… "...it is an article of normative dispensational belief that the boundaries of the land promised to Abraham and his descendants from the Nile to the Euphrates will be literally instituted and that Jesus Christ will return to a literal and theocratic Jewish kingdom centred on a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. In such a scheme the Church on earth is relegated to the status of a parenthesis.” John F. Walvoord, The Rapture Question.1979, p. 25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are there two peoples of God in John 10:16? (See also 1 John 2:22-23, 2 John 1:7-11.) What is the land promise to the Old Testament Saints in Hebrews 11:15-16? (See what Joshua said about the Old Covenant land promise in Josh. 21:43.) Based on 2 Peter 3:10-13, is this earth “eternal”? Will it be replaced by a new earth? Based on Acts 2:36, and Romans 9:6-8, and Romans 11:1-5, and Hebrews 12:22-24, and James 1:1-3, can faithful Israel and the Church be separated into two different groups? Who is the New Covenant promised to in Jeremiah 31:31-34, and is it fulfilled by the blood of Christ at Calvary in Hebrews 8:6-13, and Hebrews 12:18-24? Will modern Orthodox Jews ever be saved outside of the New Covenant Church, if the New Covenant is “everlasting” in Hebrews 13:20? (See also 2 Thess. 1:7-10) If the New Covenant has made the Old Covenant “obsolete” in Hebrews 8:6-13, why would God go back to the Old Covenant system during a future time period? Read the recent book "The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism", by Daniel G. Hummel.
on the brighter side.... though... I have had problems for years trying to figure this out.. how Scofield has titled their bibles.. I have about 14 different Scofield's.. from various years... various editions.. and the spines all read different.. they are all different sizes.. I have 2 New Scofield's.. and even these 2 are different.. all of mine are KJV... except.. I believe my Scofield III may be a NKJV... but who can follow the editions of these..?.
How is it being revised after someone is dead? Scofield was a puppet used by those who control the media, hollywood etc etc to present their worldly views of their own religion. Look up what company first printed the Scofield in the States and who controlled/owned that company
The Schofield reference bible is completely based on the false doctrine of John Nelson Darby. It falsely teaches a rapture a thousand years reign and that unsaved Jews are God's people. False!!
I understand what this man is doing i really do he is trying to help. However we must know the bible we must read and study and apply it. Lets face the facts most study bibles if we looked long enough in any mans notes we are probably going to find something we dont agree with or something that is in error. The bible is not in error however man can be. Chew the meat and spit out the bone. I suggest anyone who hasnt read or isnt reading daily the bible like they should to stay away from a study bible like scofield if you know Gods word keep his word the scripture as truth and take mans comentary with a grain of salt
Yes! Read it and study it everyday. I am going through an old Scofield Bible this year and I'm finding many of his notes I really like. I'm also finding many of his notes that show his dispensationism really informed much of his interpretation. The new Scofield is accurately described here.
The New Scofield is definitely King James.. but Not edited by C.I. Scofield.. it is edited by E. Schuyler English... first produced in 1967 as an updated version of the King James.. they made the mistake of placing the updated words in brackets in the text.. and placing the original.. olde English words .. some of them.. in the reference column area... And I have found a few places so far.. where the Scofield notes have been updated/changed.. and a few other places where the dates Scofield used as scripture reference points differ between Scofields and English's.. as well as Scofield has the dates on every page... the New Scofield only has these at the beginning of each books... also.. the New Scofield's notes.. can differ amongst themselves depending on publication years...
I think your tip toeing around Scofield Bible HERESIES too much. Heresy is heresy is it not!!? Thank you so much for pointing these errors out. The issues that you address are very concerning!!!!!
if Scofield believed in some dateless past as YOU make it sound as a "gap theory" .from his notes.. then why is Genesis dated with Ussher's date of 4004 B.C...?.. I do not believe when Scofield wrote this note regarding a "dateless past".. that he had in mind a creation between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2... what he is stating that this date he is giving is some point before an accurate development of a calendar system existed.... by which we could know exactly when the earth and heaven were created.... in other words his date of 4004.. is just a guestimate.... since.. there is no way of accurately knowing when exactly God began His creation process..
The Septuagint places creation 1300 yrs earlier, the earliest Paleo Hebrew also does not agree with 4004, and two J3wish historians of the second and third century BC do not agree with 4004 BC.
@@RayMack-xz7xg Many scholars .. Including Peter Ruckman.. (for what that's worth).. do Not even recognize the Septuagint as a valid peace of Scripture teaching... the LXX contains the Apocryphal books as well.. which weren't even recognized as part of Hebrew Scripture.. and therefore considered Non-canonical... I would Not base any opinion.. on information solely found based on Septuagint writings..
@@jeffcarlson3269 The Septuagint has been shown to align more closely with the oldest Hebrew scriptures, the Dead Sea Scrolls, than the Masoretic texts do, the Septuagint preserved the book of Esther, the Masoretic texts omit key messianic passages, and all of the many OT quotations you find in even the KJV overwhelmingly come from the Septuagint, including the one where it says in the NT a Virgin will be with child. Scholars for centuries have known the early church, even before the end of the 1st century, overwhelmingly copied the scriptures in Greek of Paul's and others letters and got their OT quotations from the Septuagint.
What a weird way to approach and argue for King James Only, if that's what this attempt was. I thought it was going to be about the doctrines that are within the Scofield Notes, perhaps a criticism of them--but no! Instead we got a weak attempt at defending the KJV. By, the way where is the encouragement to believers to be discerning--to study the Bible like the Bereans did in the book of Acts? While it is true that there are flaws, the message of the truth still remains the same that the Word of God is: "living and powerful..." Where's that message? C.I. was a man, that actually saw a need and did something about it, and now over a century later we are still seeing the benefits of what he and the editors did. Anyway, I hope you see this schpeal of mine and rethink your approach.
A drunken lawyer writing a reference Bible,obviously confused with the facts,one should do thorough research on C.I.Scofield conversion story.One can't find a perfect study Bible,if somebody says there is a perfect study Bible don't be fooled either he or she is lying or s nut case.
@Ted J L I respect your view,besides I don't treat the notes on the Scofield Bible as Scripture,the only reason why I bought the Scofield Reference Bible years ago is because I find its size handy and its print large enough for me to read without straining my eyes.After saving enough money from my pension bought a Ryrie Study Bible KJV which I use in my Bible reading.
@Ted J L I have no problem with dispensationalism.The Israel and the Church are two different bodies.That is the correct interpretation of the Bible.If your trying to tell me that I'm wrong for believing is dispensationalism because most protestant denominations like Lutherans,Methodist Reformed groups like Presbyterians in general are not dispensationalist except one the Bible Presbyterians founded by Dr.Carl McIntire who also became first president of the International Council of Christian Churches.Its too late now to change because I'm convinced dispensationalism is the correct interpretation of prophecy.
@Ted J L In your earlier comment you mentioned that before 1850 years there is no teaching regarding dispensationalism.I assume you know a little about dispensationalism which includes premillennialism and pretribulation rapture.Have you heard about Morgan Edwards a Baptist historian (1772-1792).John Nelson Darby 1800-1882) Morgan Edwards wrote Two Academical Exercises on the Subjects Bearing the Following titles:Millennium and Last Novelties.If you doubt this information you can look it up in any encyclopedia or google it.
@@dannyboy7130 It’s not in the Bible the pre-tribulation rapture is not in the Bible so it ain’t happening. You’ll be down here too. Schofield made it all up with the help of his Jewish friend.
Danny Boy, welcome to the Laodicean Church age. Don't bother with the idiots, brother. Just read the Book, and let the scholars waste their years trying to make themselves look intelligent
This is the most shoddy presentation I have ever heard. What's making you nervous? I had to recheck a lot of the references because they were way off. Fortunately, I knew my Bible well enough that I knew where the references were. By the way some of the best manuscripts will actually agree with Scofield. Know your Greek texts sir!
@@angelakatsapas7894 Be Berean and be a dispensacionalist. Dispensaconalism is not heresy becuase eveone on the history of church have a elements of it. Religion or Faith without elements of dispensationalism dosen't even exgist and can't egxist in christianity; dispensationalism is dividing verses to grup of people and time, don't be carnal Angelo, don't throw accusation with make no sens, if you supousedly don't agree with dividing periods of time in the Biblie but rather you belive in one period don't call others as heresy.
@@BeniaminZaboj I have news for you, Dispensationalism only raised it's head in the mid 19th century. A third Temple being built and sacrificed being reinstituted is in defiance to the Finished Work of The Lord Jesus Christ. Dispensationalism is the huge delusion of our day.
@@angelakatsapas7894 Diepsnationalism as THEOLOGY is form 19 ceuntry, Dispensationlism as ELEMENTS OF ALL FAITH IS FROM THE BEGINING - THIS IS MY NEWS FOR YOU. AND IN YOUR THEOLOGY MUST BE ELEMENTS OF IT EITHER. But tell me, in what you disagree with dispensationalist theology?
