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Zionists Helped To Spread Dispensationalism
Posted : 29 Jun, 2011 11:21 AM
Zionists Helped To Spread Dispensationalism
In 1936, Lewis S. Chafer, a classical dispensationalist, defined Scofield's literalism as "The outstanding characteristic of the dispensationalist is ... that he believes every statement of the Bible and gives to it the plain, natural meaning its words imply."
From: L. S. Chafer, �Dispensationalism,� Bibliotheca Sacra, 93, October (1936), pp410, 417.
Charles C. Ryrie (born 1925) says of classical dispensationalism that the: "basic primise of Dispensationalism
is two purposes of God expressed in the formation of two peoples who maintain their distinction throughout eternity." Charles C. Ryrie, Dispensationalism Today, 1966,pp.44-45.
J. Dwight Pentecost is another dispensationalist theologian who in his book Things To Come ( 1965) says "The church and Israel are two distinct groups with whom God has a divine plan. The church is a mystery, unrevealed in the Old Testament." (page 193, J. Dwight Pentecost, Things To Come, Zondervan, 1965)....
The classical dispensationalists - John Darby, C.I. Scofield, and Lewis S. Chafer - insist that "Israel" in the Old
Testament always means physical or ethnic Israel, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And - the Catholic Church did not replace ethnic Israel. Ethnic Israel was reborn in Jesus Christ. It was transformed rather than replaced.
The teaching of this theology is that God has two different peoples, the Jews and the Church, with whom he deals in very different ways.
Scripture does not support this teaching. Christ in John 10: 16 says "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd."
He says clearly that there shall be one fold of his people, not two.
John 1: 11 says "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." As a consequence, Matthew 8: 11-12 says "And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Paul in Ephesians 2: 13-15 says "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;"
Christ broke down the wall separating believing Jews from believing Gentiles, and made them one. They are not two different groups under Christ.
"So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another" (Romans 12: 5).
" For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread" (I Corinthians 10: 17).
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3: 28)
"There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;" (Ephesians 4: 4)
Paul was careful to tell his congregations that Jewish and Gentile Christians were of one body and not two separate groups. This concern of Paul came partly out of the problem he faced of Judaizers telling his Gentile Christians that they must follow the ceremonial law of Moses to be saved, that is. they were trying to mix the Old and New Covenants together into a false religion.
C.I. Scofield was the American who spread dispensationalism in the United States during the late 19th century and early 20th century. But there is some evidence that later on members of the Zionist movement helped to spread dispensationalism, especially in the United States. Certainly dispensationalism as the most popular theology in American evangelical churches has encouraged Christians to donate money to the cause of the nation of Israel, and to support efforts by the government to protect Israel in military, economic and political ways.
For example, Samuel Untermeyer, who later became chairman of the American Jewish Committee, and president
of the American League of Jewish Patriots. is said to have helped C.I Scofield, the first major American dispensationalists. This is from the site:
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/hoax/scofield.htm
"Untermeyer introduced Scofield to numerous Zionist and socialist
leaders, including Samuel Gompers, Fiorello LaGuardia, Abraham Straus, Bernard Baruch and Jacob Schiff. These were the people who financed Scofield's research trips to Oxford and arranged the publication and
distribution of his concordance."
Scofield passed the promotion of dispensationalism on to Lewis Sperry Chafer who founded the Dallas Theological Seminary in 1924. The theology was spread from there and soon from other theological seminaries after 1924. So dispensationalism
is a set of false doctrines that have been spread to the churches from the theological seminaries.
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