C. I. Scofield and the Scofield Reference Bible

C. I. Scofield was the author of the Scofield Reference Bible, which was widely used and advertised among Christian Fundamentalist, Pentecostal, and Latter Rain sects. Scofield's reference notes focused heavily upon dispensationalism theology, and were often quoted in sermons and literature for these sects, especially for those advertising angelic visitations for the current "dispensation". According to Scofield, "angels" were to come in "human form", giving credence to William Branham and other Post-WWII Healing revivalists who claimed to have been visited by "angels".

C. I. Scofield was a probate attorney in Kansas who served under the Republican Ticket as Representative of the 8th District for President Ulysses S. Grant and later as United States Attorney for Kansas. He devised a railroad scam luring prominent Republicans who invested thousands of dollars. As a result, Scofield's political career was short-lived. Scofield was forced to resign from federal office and fled the state of Kansas to St. Louis, Missouri where he continued swindling people out of money and was forced to flee to Illinois. He was eventually arrested in 1878.

While incarcerated for forgery, Scofield began claiming to have been "born again" and converted to the Congregational Church. A band of female Congressional missionaries began visiting Scofield in jail, one of which became Scofield's mistress. Scofield abandoned his first wife and two daughters for the woman, later abandoned her, and married another. The conversion story, however, was continued as Scofield entered the Congregational ministry and started pastoring a church in Dallas. The church was so successful that it became one of the wealthiest and most aristocratic church organizations in the State of Texas. So much so that he attracted the attention of famed evangelist Dwight Moody, and Scofield suddenly found himself on the board of Moody's Northfield Bible School, and pastor of the Northfield Congregational Church.

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