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Admin	The Scofield Reference Bible and Postulates of Dispensationalism Posted : 14 Jun, 2012 05:59 AM The Scofield Reference Bible places Scofield's comments right on the page with scripture, which can lead Christians who do not know the Bible too well to accept Scofield's theology, called dispensationalism, Christian Zionism, separation theology or postponement theology. C.I. Scofield, along with John Darby and Lewis S. Chafer are the early or classical dispensationalists. But when I was looking for direct statements by Scofield in the 1917 edition of his Reference Bible, my impression was that he is slippery and is not as easy to pin down in this work as are some other dispensationalists. So I quoted from Lewis. S. Chafer, �Dispensationalism,' Bibliotheca Sacra, 93, October (1936), Charles C. Ryrie, Dispensationalism Today, 1966, and J. Dwight Pentecost,Things To Come, Zondervan, 1965 to show by the words of dispensationalists their starting postulates. Those starting postulates of dispensationalism are that every statement in the Bible must be given a literal interpretation, the plain, natural meaning its words imply, and that God has two distinct and separate groups of people, the Jews and the "church," for whom God has different plans, and the two groups in classical dispensationalism are said to remain separate for eternity. These starting postulates determine the various doctrines of dispensationalism, including its end time prophecy. A postulate is a fundamental assumption in a theory, as in math, or in man-made theories, in both hard and soft experimental science. A postulate or axiom is assumed to be true. In dispensationalism their starting postulates were created by John Darby, C.I Scofield and Lewis S. Chafer leaning to their own understanding and not to "it is written." So, when their various doctrines and interpretations of Bible texts work out from the beginning postulates, there are many contradictions with scripture, especially scripture interpreted by scripture and not by dispensationalist theory. Post Reply
View Profile History	The Scofield Reference Bible and Postulates of Dispensationalism Posted : 14 Jun, 2012 12:29 PM Thanxs for the info...I wasnt aware the Scofield Referance Bible has a personal interpretation in it that postulates of dispensationalisim...I'll have to pull mine off the self and check into that...I wonder what all the other Bible Versions I have...have in them...I personaly prefer to read the KJV...the Holy Bible I depend on and read has a most excellant Scripture with X Referances, Historical Timeline, each Book of the Bible Comentary, and purty darn decent Concordance with Geographic Maps...xo Post Reply
View Profile History	The Scofield Reference Bible and Postulates of Dispensationalism Posted : 14 Jun, 2012 01:56 PM I wasn't aware of this either until I read it the other day. I've only seen the bible in stores and never studied from it. Post Reply
View Profile History	The Scofield Reference Bible and Postulates of Dispensationalism Posted : 15 Jun, 2012 06:19 AM The Scofield Reference Bible has Scofield's interpretations right on the page with the Bible verses. But it does not contain a summary of the starting postulates of dispensationalism. In my post above I said i did not use quotes from Scofield but used those of other dispensationalists to show from their writings the starting points of the theology. Post Reply