The Scofield Reference Bible is More Harmful Than the Satanic Bible

The Scofield Reference Bible spread the theology of Dispensationalism rapidly in the first half of the 20th century. Dispensationalism teaches the removal of the force of God’s moral law from Christianity by separating faith in Jesus from the need to use His moral law as a guide to faith. In reality, Jesus is the Lawgiver and there is no genuine faith in Him without subjection to His law. Dispensationalists take moral principles from the Old Testament (and also from the New Testament in many cases) and say “Oh, that was only for the Jews” or “that is only for the future kingdom.” Dispensationalism discounts that the earliest Christians were Jews who operated on the foundation stones of the Jewish Scriptures (i.e. the Old Testament). The evil concept that Jesus can be your Savior while not really being honored and followed as Lord is fostered by Dispensational heresy. Like Calvinism/Reformation Theology (which it is influenced by), Dispensationalism separates acceptable faith in Christ from obedience to Him for who He is (the Lord and Savior) and the absolute necessity of using His law as a guide to walking by faith in Him.

Supporting modern Israel, treating it as if it is God’s nation, is a key consequence of Dispensationalism- since it falsely teaches that God has a covenant with national Israel, including with Jews who reject Jesus as the Messiah. It claims that this covenant is separate from His covenant with the Christian church. Dispensationalism discounts that the Christian church is the true spiritual Israel (like Galatians 6:16 plainly shows).

The widespread belief in the pre-tribulation rapture before a 7 year tribulation period is another consequence of the vast influence of Dispensationalism.

How did such concepts come to be so widespread and treated as Biblical truth by multitudes? The corrupted concept of faith from Calvinism/Reformation theology met with the distinctive doctrines of Dispensationalism in a man in Ireland in the 19th century. That man was John N. Darby. Though Darby was not the very first one to teach these Dispensationalist concepts, he gave these previously obscure and relatively new teachings an element of notoriety. Darby’s teachings came to be embraced by St. Louis pastor James H. Brookes in the latter 19th century. A man whom Brookes mentored named Cyrus I. Scofield would go on to popularize Dispensational Theology through his Scofield Reference Bible, an early 20th century book that is basically a King James Bible with Scofield’s notes attached to it in the margin. It was highly unusual at the time for a man to dare to place his own notes right alongside the Holy Scriptures.

Dallas Theological Seminary, through its dissemination of Scofield’s teachings, has been a great vehicle for spreading Dispensationalism throughout the world. Scofield heavily influenced Lewis Sperry Chafer, the founder of Dallas Theological Seminary. Chafer has also openly admitted to being Calvinistic. Disagreements related to the end-times became the reason Dallas Theological Seminary grads were eventually not welcome in many Calvinist/Reformed churches and rather ministered in Baptist and independent churches. Dispensationalism was being adopted by conservative non-Calvinists as well by the mid-1920s (probably not even recognizing the influence of Calvinism upon Dispensationalism- it is a blind spot which many have to this day). Dispensationalism thus became attached to fundamentalist evangelical churches and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches too (which have serious problems anyways due to the nonsense which they attribute to the Holy Spirit and other things).

Many adopted Dispensationalist theology through reading the Scofield reference Bible’s notes- including many who had already been Biblical fundamentalists. Scofield also gained much credit in many circles due to his association with the evangelist D.L. Moody. We may not know how much Moody actually knew of Scofield, but Scofield’s teaching itself should have been a sufficient red flag to not give him a stage to spread his lies upon. The Scofield Reference Bible had sold more than two million copies by the end of WWII and evidently greatly influenced multitudes more- including by the great influence that the Dallas Theological Seminary has had upon countless other seminaries and Bible Colleges. Its vast influence today is as obvious as anything can be to anyone who is exposed to what is taught in today’s seminaries, churches, Christian radio stations, and TV networks.

Scofield had already obtained the reputation of being an unscrupulous man by the time of his alleged conversion to Christ in 1879. Scofield’s abandonment of his family after his alleged conversion is publicly documented by an 1883 court ruling granting Scofield’s first wife the divorce which she sought on the grounds of desertion and also granting her full custody of their two daughters. Scofield then married another woman three months later (one whom he had already been linked to by the time his divorce was granted). Even when Scofield had obviously become rich from the royalties received from his reference Bible (close to a million dollars by today’s money) he left his two daughters, whom he had abandoned already, out of his will completely (all Christian work and charitable efforts were also left out- everything went to his second wife and the son they had together).

Scofield taught the lie that man always fails God- one hundred percent of the time. He taught that every one of the seven alleged dispensations of God’s dealing with mankind has ended, or will end, with man’s total failure. Scofield didn’t account that the earliest Christians were Jews who had indeed learned the lessons that God sought to teach to Israel. We have every reason to believe that this teaching of inevitable failure for man reflects Scofield’s own projection upon others of his own moral failure and lack of fruitful repentance. It is no wonder that a man who has been so influential in persuading people that the Christian is released from obligation to keeping God’s law abandoned his first wife and permanently cut off support of the couple’s two minor daughters. The most influential work on allegedly Christian doctrine since the early 20th century came from a man whom the Bible says is worse than an infidel. The Scofield Reference Bible conveniently makes no comment at all on 1 Timothy 5:8: “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel (an unbeliever).” 1 Timothy 5:8 is actually proof that one must walk in the light of God’s Word, honestly using the commandments of God as a guide to living by faith in Jesus Christ, in order to receive cleansing and justification by His blood.

Another extremely suspicious thing about Scofield’s life is his acceptance as a member to the Lotos Club in New York City in 1901. This club is an upscale Manhattan hangout which was not open to the public at that time. The only way which one could get in was to be recommended for membership by one of its highly wealthy members. Many believe that Samuel Untermayer, a Jewish lawyer who has been linked to international bankers and other prominent people in the Zionist movement (as well as to many Left-Wing causes), is who recommended Scofield. Untermayer was well known in his time, yet he is not on Wikipedia’s list of famous Lotos Club members. However, his 1940 New York Times obituary mentions how Untermayer was a member of the Lotos Club of Manhattan.

Even though it is not precisely known how Scofield got into the Lotos Club, his membership was obtained through someone very rich and powerful. This was also almost a decade before Scofield’s Reference Bible was even published. Why was a middle class preacher from the Midwest admitted to an upscale private club in New York City? And what was he doing there anyways? When you consider how the Zionist movement had already begun at that time, and how the Rothschild international banking cartel was already using this movement to attempt to take the land of Palestine for itself, the claim that Scofield and his work was being directed by powerful Zionists makes sense. That is especially so when you consider that Christian resistance was a necessary force to overcome in order to cause this Zionist takeover to work. It is no wonder that rich Zionist Jews would finance a man of Scofield’s character to use him to manipulate the Christian world to help them in their theft under the pretense of faithful Christianity. The original Scofield reference Bible contains no notes on 781 out of its 1,353 pages. It’s as if Scofield had no other purpose in making it than to spread the Dispensational points which it came to be known for.