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 dirnOnline: Cyrus Ingerson Scofield
Scofield was profoundly influential in the development of the Bible conference movement (It must be understood that the appeal of this movement was to a popular audience, not the learned scholarly community.
Scofield was a major influence in the institutionalization of the Bible conference movement through educational institutions and missionary agencies.
Writing shortly after Scofield's death, Chafer commented, "For twenty years, I have enjoyed the closest heart-fellowship with him, and the incalculable benefit of his personal counsel?" The fruit of that mentoring relationship was the founding of Dallas Seminary as the fulfillment of a dream of Scofield's.
www.tyndale.edu /dirn/bios/scofield.html   (2301 words)

  
 Cyrus Scofield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scofield's correspondence Bible study course was the basis for his Reference Bible, an annotated, and widely circulated, study Bible first published in 1909 by Oxford University Press.
Scofield's notes teach dispensationalism, a theology that was in part conceived in the early nineteenth century by the Anglo-Irish John Nelson Darby, who like Scofield had also been trained as a lawyer.
Scofield believed that between creation and the final judgment there were seven distinct eras of God's dealing with man and that these eras were a framework around which the message of the Bible could be explained.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyrus_I._Scofield   (725 words)

  
 Scofield: The Man Behind The Myth
Scofield began courting his future second wife Hettie van Wark before the divorce was finalized and they got married only three months after it was.
Within the past year, however, Cyrus committed a series of St. Louis forgeries that could not be settled so easily, and the erratic young gentleman was compelled to linger in the St. Louis jail for a period of six months.
Scofield preferred the Revised Version of the Bible, which was largely the product of his mentors Westcott and Hort and was based on corrupted manuscripts born in Alexandria, Egypt and espoused by the Vatican.
poweredbychrist.homestead.com /files/cyrus/scofield.htm   (1862 words)

  
 AncientPath.net - WW Rugh, Christ In The Tabernacle - The Making of the Tabernacle
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield was born in Michigan in 1843.
Scofield told his biographer Charles Trumbull that he served through the war, and that he was awarded the Confederate Cross of Honor.
Scofield came again to Atchison in 1879 and spent the remainder of her 88 years here." But by 1879 Scofield's life had deteriorated to the extent that he drank heavily and was involved in several questionable court cases.
www.ancientpath.net /Bible/PBU/Scofield/scofield_gossbio.htm   (3870 words)

  
 C I Scofield
Born in Michigan, Cyrus Scofield, a former lawyer, was chosen of God to produce the most widely known reference Study bible in the English language.
Scofield's YMCA work caught the eye of those around him, and he was asked to become pastor of the First Congregational Church of Dallas, Texas.
Cyrus Scofield died in his home in New York on July 24, 1921 after living 77 years, 11 months and 5 days.
www.gospelcenterchurch.org /scofield.html   (1355 words)

  
 Higher Praise Greatest Preachers (Cyrus I. Scofield)
Scofield (1843-1921) was an American Congregational Presbyterian clergyman, writer, Bible conference speaker, defender of dispensational premillennialism, and editor of the Scofield Reference Bible.
In 1888, Scofield wrote Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth, which attempted in pamphlet form to practically explain the dispensational, pretribulational, premillennial interpretation of the Bible.
The hallmark of his literary production was the now-famous Scofield Reference Bible published in 1909 and revised in 1917- The Reference Bible is widely recognized as the most important literary production of the Bible conference/institute movement.
www.higherpraise.com /preachers/scofield.htm   (2315 words)

  
 ANALYZING Cyrus I. Scofield and His Teaching
In 1871, Cyrus was elected Representative to the Lower House of the Kansas Legislature from the Fourth District for one term.
Scofield is the arch heretic of all church history and his notes have influenced, and in some cases have controlled, a large portion of church thinking for this century.
SCOFIELD notes (SRB 1917, 1967) on Rev 3:21 and 2Sa 7:16: These notes advocate that we are not to assume 'the throne of his father David,' is synonymous with 'my Father's throne,' or that the 'house of Jacob' is the Church composed of both Jew and Gentile.
www.gospeltruth.net /scofield.htm   (20420 words)

  
 Planet Preterist - Cyrus I. Scofield: The Pope of Prophecy Perversion
Scofield, went on with the help of the Secret Six, to be appointed United States Attorney for Kansas, only to be forced to resign after six months when he and his friend Ingalls were caught trying to flmail the railroads out of some money.
Scofield was at this time no more than a Kansas con man. With no background in these particular fields, and a man with some highly placed friends.
Scofield was just a casual member they say, but listed it as his residence for 20 years while his wife languished in Kansas without any support.
www.planetpreterist.com /news-827.html   (4648 words)

  
 C.I. Scofield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cyrus Ingersoll Scofield was born near Clinton, Michigan, but his family soon moved to Tennessee, where he received his early education.
Scofield was ordained in Dallas, Texas, in October, 1883, and began his ministry as a pastor of the First Congregational Church there.
He published the Scofield Bible Correspondence Course in 1890, and in 1902 he began his work on the famous Scofield Reference Bible, which he presented to the public in January, 1909.
www.wilderness-cry.net /bible_study/bios/scofield.html   (248 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, Confederate soldier, legislator, lawyer, and congregational pastor, son of Elias and Abi (Goodrich) Scofield, was born in Lenawee County, Michigan, on August 19, 1843.
Scofield served in the Seventh Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army, and received the Confederate Cross of Honor.
Scofield became pastor of Moody Church, Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1895, but returned to the Dallas church in 1902, when he began work on the Scofield Reference Bible, published in 1910.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/fsc21.html   (318 words)

  
 Pilgrim Platform - C.I. Scofield
Cyrus Ingreson Scofield was born in Michigan on August 19, 1843.
Scofield's biographer, Charles Trumbull, stated that Scofield was ignorant of things Christian up to 1879, the year he assigned to his conversion.
Scofield acknowledged the influence of two scholars whom he admired, and to whom he was introduced through his association with the Oxford Press.
www.pilgrim-platform.org /scofield.htm   (4614 words)

  
 THE JUDAISATION OF PROTESTANTISM - Historicist.com The Protestant Interpretation of Biblical Prophecy. The Historical ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Scofield was an ideal tool for beclouding the clear waters of Christianity with the Doctrine of Baalim.
On July 23, 1901 Scofield confided to some of his associates, Dwight L. Moody included, that he intended to develop a reference Bible that would bring to pass this "new beginning and new testimony." Although a letter from Scofield appeared in the Moody Monthly, the existence of Scofield's sinister controllers was concealed.
Reverend McDonald failed to disclose that her futurist teachings originated in the mind of the Jesuit priest, Francisco Ribera Ribera's calculation that the size of hell was precisely 200 square miles made him one of the most respected theologians of the 1580's, but it remained for his conjuration of a future antichrist to truly immortalizehim.
www.historicist.com /articles2/protestantism.htm   (1440 words)

  
 7. Nurtured To Maturity In America
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (1843-1921) was born in Michigan but was reared in Wilson County, Tennessee.
Scofield began work on his Reference Bible in 1903, after he and his friend Gaebelein had secured financial backing to enable Scofield to drop most of his pastoral duties and spend almost full time on the project.
The Scofield Bible is essentially a King James Version which has been interpreted and augmented by the addition of footnote commentaries written primarily by Cyrus Scofield, with advice and collaboration from seven consulting editors.
reformed-theology.org /html/books/rapture/chapter7.htm   (3153 words)

  
 C. I. Scofield
Although his parents were Christians and the Bible was read at home, Cyrus didn't consider it a book of investigative study but one to enjoy merely for its stories.
As a result of diligent and systematic study of the Scriptures during his years of ministry, he produced the Scofield Reference Bible and the Scofield Bible Correspondence Course.
Scofield died on Sunday morning, July 24, 1921, at Douglaston, Long Island.
www.swordofthelord.com /biographies/ScofieldCI.htm   (216 words)

  
 The Pope of Prophecy Perversion Since the early 1930s the Scofield Reference Bible has been promoted as THE source for ...
Scofield's role was to re‑write the King James Version of the Bible by inserting Zionist‑friendly notes in the margins, between verses and chapters, and on the bottoms of the pages.
Scofield, formerly of Kansas, late lawyer, politician and shyster generally, has come to the surface again, and promises once more to gather around himself that halo of notoriety that has made him so prominent in the past.
Scofield began courting his future second wife Hettie van Wark before the divorce was finalized and they got married only three months after it was.[ii] His divorce was finalized at least four years after he became 'born again'.
www.israelect.com /reference/WillieMartin/Scofield.htm   (10689 words)

  
 July 24: C. I. Scofield, Author of Reference Bible, Dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Before all was done, Cyrus became a friend of the famous evangelists D. Moody and Robert A. Torrey.
Cyrus set out to help others learn the things that would have most helped him when he first set out to understand God's word.
The Scofield Bible was printed in 1909 and had an immediate impact on what the average Christian believes.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2002/07/daily-07-24-2002.shtml   (587 words)

  
 THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM IN THE MID EAST - Part II
Scofield's role was to re-write the King James Version of the Bible by inserting Zionist-friendly notes in the margins, between verses and chapters, and on the bottoms of the pages.
Scofield's background reveals a criminal history, a deserted wife, a wrecked family, and a penchant for self-serving lies.
Scofield clearly recognized what the book of Genesis states, that the sons of Ishmael are co-heirs to Abraham's ancient promise.
www.whtt.org /articles/020807.htm   (4517 words)

  
 Scofield
Scofield abandoned his wife and children and refused to support them.
Cyrus Scofield had several other incidents of a downright dishonest nature after he supposedly became saved.
Scofield’s work continues to be praised and utilized today by men with questionable motives.
www.kingdomoflight.org /scofield1.htm   (1412 words)

  
 Vault-C0 » Cyrus Scofield : The Creator Of Rapture Crapture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Scofield was a career criminal, forger, jailbird and general scalawag who abandoned his family
Scofield’s devilish doctrine of dispensationalism usurped traditional Christianity and replaced it with a weird, deviant and pathological cluster of lies that mangles the New Testament into a pagan mystery cult.
Cyrus Scofield wasn’t much of a man and even less of a “Christian.”
www.vault-co.com /index.php?p=381   (266 words)

  
 Israeli Extremists and Christian Fundamentalists: The Alliance
My premise in Prophecy and Politics is that Christian Zionism is a dangerous and growing segment of Christianity, which was popularized by the 19th-century American Cyrus Scofield when he wrote into a Bible his interpretation of events in history.
His Scofield Bible is today the most popular of the reference Bibles.
Scofield said that Christ cannot return to earth until certain events occur: The Jews must return to Palestine, gain control of Jerusalem and rebuild a temple, and then we all must engage in the final, great battle called Armageddon.
www.washington-report.org /backissues/1288/8812031.htm   (1094 words)

  
 C. I. Scofield
When the war was over, Scofield studied law in St. Louis, and afterward moved to Kansas, where he was admitted to the bar in 1869.
He served in the Kansas State Legislature and at the age of twenty-nine was appointed by President Grant as United States District Attorney for Kansas.
In reflecting upon his own lifetime Scofield recalls the two great epochs of his life: "The first was when I ceased to take as final human teachings about the Bible and went to the Bible itself.
www.pilkingtonandsons.com /ScofieldBooks.htm   (447 words)

  
 Scofield Graduate School & Seminary - AnAnswer.org
Scofield Graduate School and Seminary was born from a vision to deliver affordable and easy online Christian Education.
Scofield Seminary has made arrangements with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (www.rzim.org) to offer “Deliver us from Evil” (DVD series and the book of the same title), for 3 college credits.
Bible student and author, born in Lenawee County, Michigan, reared in Wilson County, Tennessee, and privately educated.
www.ananswer.org /school   (365 words)

  
 The Incredible Scofield and His Book - Joseph Canfield
But no one before this has worked out a detailed account of the life of Cyrus I. Scofield.
And yet there is such an amazing amount of material that should be known about this man and his character that everyone who is at all interested in the dispensational system should read this book.
This is one of the most powerful books that has ever been written against the dispensational system.
www.eaec.org /bookstore/books/the_incredible_scofield_and_his_book.htm   (461 words)

  
 C. I. Scofield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (1843-1921), Bible student and author, was born in Lenawee County, Michigan, reared in Wilson County, Tennessee, and privately educated.
The work for which he is best remembered is his 1909 dispensational premillennial Scofield Reference Bible.
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www.gotell.gracenet.org /m_ci_scofield.htm   (168 words)

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