Scofield Reference Bible & Cyrus I Scofield

[Strefanash]

someone:

4. The greatest reigning error of this century is his teaching that promises a millennial kingdom on the earth after Christ returns for his church. (cf. Ro 8:18-23.)

Strefanash:

I am at a complete loss to see how this passage refutes the notions of a millenial reign of the saints aftert the second coming.

As for the millenial reign revelation 20:4 is most clear, . . . those that received not the mark of the beast etc lived and reigned with christ a thousand years. this is the first resurrection.

Try and explain this verse, if you will, without explaining it away

To accuse Scofield of error in this smacks of emotional over reaction. If Scofield is the founding father of dispensationalism, I reject that on the ground that there is only ever one way to be saved, by faith, and none other. thus there were two covenants, (not 7 dispensations)the first covenant being a ministry of death (the Law) to lock us into helplessness (look it up in Romans and Galatians) and thus to make our need manifest. no one was edver saved by law keeping, or by conscience (one of Scofields 7 dispensations)

But to accuse him if error her when he is not in error on this point is the kind of emotional reaction I simply cannot be bothered refuting the more i see emotional reactions presenting themselves as serious theological thought when they are nothing of the sort.

Now I have nothing overly hard against emotional reactions. I am full of them myself , and I bring them to God as the sins they are, to repent of those sins under his grace.