Tucker Carlson · It’s Time to Tell the Truth About the Scofield Bible…

1. 1. Cyrus Scofield, who published the Scofield Reference Bible in 1907, was a scoundrel who abandoned his wife and children.
2. 2. The Scofield Bible was not actually Scofield's own work; it was an Oxford University Press publication that used his name, and he served as the theologian whose marginal notes propagated John Nelson Darby's dispensationalist theology.
3. 3. Dispensationalism spread rapidly among low-church evangelical Protestants because most pastors lacked formal seminary training and relied on the Scofield Bible's marginal notes as their primary theological resource.
4. 4. Many Christians were not educated enough to distinguish between the biblical text and Scofield's marginal notes, leading them to treat the notes as inspired scripture.
5. 5. Scofield was likely a patsy used by political Zionists in the UK to disseminate dispensationalist theology in order to support the Zionist political project.
6. 6. The Scofield Bible was published in 1907, just before World War I, and it spread like wildfire in the United States among Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists, and participants in the Azusa Street Revival, who typically lacked seminary education.
7. 7. Today, many Christians, including Presbyterians who are traditionally covenant theologians, have absorbed dispensationalist ideas such as the belief that Jews are God's chosen people, even though their own confessions reject that notion.