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6/26/2025, 4:14:32 AM
The Terrible Error of the Scofield Bible
By Emma Moore Weston
>The Scofield teaching is concerned with a literal Jewish kingdom to last for a millennium. It was first brought into the early church by some Jews who still could not give up the hope taught to them by the scribes and Pharisees. The Bible does not teach it, and the disciples who had been taught it, rejected it after Pentecost. Jesus warned about it in Matthew 16:6-12. Scofield’s work was calculated to promote certain ideas. We must ask ourselves if Jesus ever offered or announced himself as an earthly King or claimed David’s throne? Had he ever in any way suggested he was going to set up an earthly kingdom? He said to Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this world, if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews, but now is my kingdom not from hence (John 18:36). They could not prove him guilty before Pilate of any offense against Rome….
https://fgcp.org/terrible-error-scofield-bible
https://christianobserver.net/the-scofield-bible-its-powerful-effect-on-modern-christianity/
Dispensationalism (wrong): Jews are God's chosen people
Covenant Theology (right): Israel = Christianity
Covenant Theology teaches there is no distinction between Israel and the Church. Old Testament promises to Israel now belong to the Church. These have been spiritualized or allegorized and belong to the church spiritually. The Church is the Kingdom of God, therefore there will be no Tribulation or 1000 year kingdom. God is through with Israel as a nation.
By Emma Moore Weston
>The Scofield teaching is concerned with a literal Jewish kingdom to last for a millennium. It was first brought into the early church by some Jews who still could not give up the hope taught to them by the scribes and Pharisees. The Bible does not teach it, and the disciples who had been taught it, rejected it after Pentecost. Jesus warned about it in Matthew 16:6-12. Scofield’s work was calculated to promote certain ideas. We must ask ourselves if Jesus ever offered or announced himself as an earthly King or claimed David’s throne? Had he ever in any way suggested he was going to set up an earthly kingdom? He said to Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this world, if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews, but now is my kingdom not from hence (John 18:36). They could not prove him guilty before Pilate of any offense against Rome….
https://fgcp.org/terrible-error-scofield-bible
https://christianobserver.net/the-scofield-bible-its-powerful-effect-on-modern-christianity/
Dispensationalism (wrong): Jews are God's chosen people
Covenant Theology (right): Israel = Christianity
Covenant Theology teaches there is no distinction between Israel and the Church. Old Testament promises to Israel now belong to the Church. These have been spiritualized or allegorized and belong to the church spiritually. The Church is the Kingdom of God, therefore there will be no Tribulation or 1000 year kingdom. God is through with Israel as a nation.
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