Since it was first published in 1909, the Scofield Reference Bible has made uncompromising Zionists out of tens of millions of Americans. When John Hagee, the founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), said that “50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians unite with five million American Jews standing together on behalf of Israel,” it was the Scofield Bible that he was talking about.

Although the Scofield Reference Bible contains the text of the King James Authorized Version, it is not the traditional Protestant bible but Cyrus I. Scofield’s annotated commentary that is problematic. More than any other factor, it is Scofield’s notes that have induced generations of American evangelicals to believe that God demands their uncritical support for the modern State of Israel.

The Scofield Bible—The Book That Made Zionists of America’s Evangelical Christians
By Maidhc Ó Cathail

“For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgement.”.


Since it was first published in 1909, the Scofield Reference Bible has made uncompromising Zionists out of tens of millions of Americans. When John Hagee, the founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), said that “50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians unite with five million American Jews standing together on behalf of Israel,” it was the Scofield Bible that he was talking about.

Although the Scofield Reference Bible contains the text of the King James Authorized Version, it is not the traditional Protestant bible but Cyrus I. Scofield’s annotated commentary that is problematic. More than any other factor, it is Scofield’s notes that have induced generations of American evangelicals to believe that God demands their uncritical support for the modern State of Israel.

BLESSING ISRAEL, CURSING ITS CRITICS
Central to Christian Zionist belief is Scofield’s commentary (italicized below) on Genesis 12:3: “‘I will bless them that bless thee.’ In fulfillment closely related to the next clause, ‘And curse him that curseth thee.’ Wonderfully fulfilled in the history of the dispersion. It has invariably fared ill with the people who have persecuted the Jew—well with those who have protected him. The future will still more remarkably prove this principle.”

Drawing on Scofield’s rather tendentious interpretation, Hagee claims, “The man or nation that lifts a voice or hand against Israel invites the wrath of God.”

But as Stephen Sizer points out in his definitive critique, Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? (available from AET’s Middle East Books and More): “The promise, when referring to Abraham’s descendants, speaks of God blessing them, not of entire nations ‘blessing’ the Hebrew nation, still less the contemporary and secular State of Israel.”

Notwithstanding this more orthodox reading, The New Scofield Study Bible, published by Oxford University Press in 1984, intensified Scofield’s interpretation by adding, “For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgement.”

“Sustained by a dubious exegesis of selective biblical texts,” Sizer concludes, “Christian Zionism’s particular reading of history and contemporary events...sets Israel and the Jewish people apart from other peoples in the Middle East...it justifies the endemic racism intrinsic to Zionism, exacerbates tensions between Jews and Palestinians and undermines attempts to find a peaceful resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, all because ‘the Bible tells them so.’”

sets Israel and the Jewish people apart from other peoples in the Middle East...it justifies the endemic racism intrinsic to Zionism, exacerbates tensions between Jews and Palestinians

What nonsensical foolish assertion is the above quote supposed to infer?

There is nothing like Palestinian people in the very sense you represent it the context above. Palestine is a geographical location occupied by the Jews and Arabs, it consists of present day Israel, Gaza, West bank and Jordan..

Jordan is 95% Palestinian Arabs and 5% ruling Saudi Royals.

Gaza should join Egypt while Westbank reunites with Jordan. Jews living in outposts should be called Palestinian Jews and called Jordanians, while Israeli Arabs stay with Israel.

Without support from USA Evangelicals, Arabs with UN support would've wipe Israeli Jews off the map.

Thank you, Ada Nna. Have missed you and your wise NL assertions a lot. Kudos.

MadamExcellency:


What nonsensical foolish assertion is the above quote supposed to infer?

There is nothing like Palestinian people in the very sense you represent it the context above. Palestine is a geographical location occupied by the Jews and Arabs, it consists of present day Israel, Gaza, West bank and Jordan..

Jordan is 95% Palestinian Arabs and 5% ruling Saudi Royals.

Gaza should join Egypt while Westbank reunites with Jordan. Jews living in outposts should be called Palestinian Jews and called Jordanians, while Israeli Arabs stay with Israel.

Without support from USA Evangelicals, Arabs with UN support would've wipe Israeli Jews off the map.

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MadamExcellency:


What nonsensical foolish assertion is the above quote supposed to infer?

There is nothing like Palestinian people in the very sense you represent it the context above. Palestine is a geographical location occupied by the Jews and Arabs, it consists of present day Israel, Gaza, West bank and Jordan..

Jordan is 95% Palestinian Arabs and 5% ruling Saudi Royals.

Gaza should join Egypt while Westbank reunites with Jordan. Jews living in outposts should be called Palestinian Jews and called Jordanians, while Israeli Arabs stay with Israel.

Without support from USA Evangelicals, Arabs with UN support would've wipe Israeli Jews off the map.

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pchukwudi:
Thank you, Ada Nna. Have missed you and your wise NL assertions a lot. Kudos.

Judas of Biafra, I am yet to see you comment on the thread I made exposing your beloved Jewish Choosenites in the trans Atlantic trade which your people suffered heavily .