The article from Ministry Magazine criticizes the Scofield Reference Bible and its interpretation of dispensationalism, highlighting its promotion of the ‘secret rapture’ and other errors. It challenges the arbitrary division of biblical history into different dispensations and warns against the potential dangers of these interpretations. Insights include the imposition of a system of error on the Bible and the critique of dispensationalism as unscriptural. The article calls for further study, awareness, and correction of these perceived misconceptions.
Main Points
Critique of Dispensationalism
Dispensationalism is critiqued and described as harboring significant errors, which include promoting a ‘secret rapture,’ antinomianism, and incorrect ideas about the antichrist.
Challenges to Scofield Bible Interpretations
The Scofield Bible’s interpretation of biblical texts is challenged, with emphasis on misrepresentation of scriptural teachings regarding law, the church, and the kingdom.
Call for Further Study and Awareness
The article invites readers to study further and warns against the dissemination of these errors, urging for truth to be exposed and errors to be addressed.
Insights
The Scofield Bible promotes 'secret rapture' and other errors as part of dispesationalism.
In recent years a most dangerous deception known as the ‘secret rapture’ has captivated many foremost ministers and teachers of the popular churches. This heresy is grouped with other pernicious teachings, equally dangerous and deceptive, in what is known as ‘modern dispensationalism.’
Scofield's interpretation imposes a certain 'system of error' upon the Bible.
He prepared a new edition of the Bible, and with notes, headings, subheadings, and summaries, imposed upon the Bible a system of error as subtle and Satanic as any that has ever been invented by the master deceiver.
Dispensationalism is critiqued for being unscriptural and arbitrary.
These seven dispensations are fittingly labeled as ‘arbitrary, fanciful, and destitute of Scriptural support.’ There is no Scriptural mention of a dispensation of human conscience during the period before the flood.
Links
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https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1942/11/sevenfold-errors-of-dispensationalism