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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.
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.
