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So Samuel Untermyer raised money to feed starving Jews and was a Zionist who wanted to use his influence or Darby, Scofield, and the Dallas Theological Seminary expressed Dispensational views, what you are proposing occurred was a grand conspiracy event complete with personal attacks thrown in concerning Scofield’ s background as a felon. True, he was an ex felon... before he repented and gave his life to Christ.
I highly doubt the Got Questions ministry is made up of “Scofield believers”, but I will research further who is involved and their views.
Well, you say it was a “white thing” as if you consider that to be wrong and a negative thing. Yet a lot of the links you provide to support your views about Scofield are from anti-Semitic, white supremacy sites. Whereas, many of those Christians you seem to speak against are those who believe, though God chose Israel to reveal Himself and accomplish certain purposes through history using the nation of Israel, God loves all people of whatever race or nationality.
Glad to hear you are not a white nationalist or anti- Semitic. We have that in common then. Neither do consider myself a Christian Zionist or hold to Scofield theology, except wherein it lines up with the scriptures.
I'm not one to buy into this notion that people who suffer in this life while living in 1st world, industrialized nations, really don't have anything to complain about because they aren't living in some flea-infested village where war and violence ravage their world.
Are you saying, that to see God's glory in this world, that to you, that glory is marred by sin? Your participation in that glory, is diminished because of sin? If you experience the Presence of God in yourself and in the world, that is marred by sin to you? I contend it is not possible. No sin exists in God. To experience God is to be free from all sin, and the marring of it.
In Havre.
To be fair, not every individual in the church would have gone as far as that guy did in how he understood the rapture. But that was my first exposure to it. However, by and large, the things they were saying as a whole were not that much different than what you shared in your link. It's all that dispensationalist stuff that Darby started in the 1800s. It's that particular flavor that he introduced theologically that spun its way into most of the fundamentalist lens that read the Bible with.
When we read the Bible today, we are not reading it without prior conditioning as to what it means influencing how we read it. I mentioned before that little magic trick about how you tell someone what the Bible says, and then show it to them in the passage so they can read it themselves. "A miracle! It's all right there in black and white. How can others not see what is so clearly there?" The true test would be to hand it to someone who has no idea what it says, say nothing, have them read it, and then in complete isolation write down what they think it means, and see how close it matches what that other believer claims it means without ever hearing any suggestion at all. It won't match.
