C I Scofield

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C.I. Scofield Not a Baptist

"appointed U. S. District Attorney for Kansas"

"that same year Scofield was forced to resign 'under a cloud of scandal'"

"Shortly thereafter Scofield may have been jailed on forgery charges."

"self-confessed heavy drinking"

"Scofield abandoned his wife and two daughters"

"was ordained as a Congregationalist minister"

divorced

"C. I. Scofield, D.D.; but there are no extant records of any academic institution having granted him the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree."

became a Southern Presbyterian

Wrote his Scofield reference Bible.


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