One of the saddest effects of Scofieldian Dispensationalism on the landscape of the American church is the almost wholesale disregard for and discarding of the Moral Law. Scofield taught a stark division between Old Testament Israel and the New Testament church, a division so great that the two were not one people or one church or under one covenant of grace, but were rather two peoples under two covenants, and two churches in two different administrations. Indeed, the New Testament church hardly needs the Old Testament, according to Scofield, since it is a book of the Jews, by the Jews, and therefore for the Jews. The New Testament church has all it needs in the New Testament revelation. Continue reading “The Moral Law and Puritan Spirituality”
A table of truth in the wilderness for hungry pilgrims.
