QUOTE This is why I am no longer a pre-tribulationist and believe the fate of the lost is annihilation.
We are of one accord there, brother! I decided, some 10 years back, to question everything I had been taught, and let the scripture be my guide to all doctrine, not men's statement of faith or creeds or dogmas. I found that many of my learned Baptist beliefs were soundly scriptural (original sin, virgin birth, sinlessness of Christ, Justification by faith alone, etc), I also found that in some instances, especially the pre-trib rapture, the scripture taught the exact opposite!
***especially the pre-trib rapture, the scripture taught the exact opposite! ***
From what I’ve read, Baptists held the amillinialist line until Schofield came out with this bible notes. Schofieldism has taken over most fundamentalist churches.
The SBC has never OK’d the Schofield end times doctrine, but has never said it war wrong. The Independent Baptist leader John r Rice did not promote it, but after Rice died, Schofield’s notes became standard in the Independent Baptist Churches.
I tossed my Schofield bible years ago returning to the KJV without notes.