J.D. Hall
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890 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
J.D. Hall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the typical pastor in a baptist or congregationalist congregation would own a bible and that would be about it they didn't go home to prepare their sermon with a collection of commentaries or a bible concordance or a lexicon all they had was a bible but if they could get their hands on
the Schofields edition, they would have all of the study notes that they could read and learn and educate themselves.
And, you know, they were smart enough to know that the margins is not the same as inspired writ, but
That became the de facto home education for a lot of clergy.
Within a single generation among low church evangelical Protestantism, dispensationalism became the majority view.
because it's a nice, handy resource that you read right there in the pages of the Bible.
And a lot of uneducated Christians during the era were actually not smart enough or educated enough, I should say, to discern the difference between the inspired writ that was given by God the Holy Spirit, written through the hands of men, inspired by God the Holy Ghost, and the marginal notes in which
this effectively schismatic cult in Ireland and then England has their theology on the side of the pages.
And so they would look at that, not see the difference.
And all of a sudden, well, if you fast forward to today,
people believe that that's the view that the church has always held.
Schofield's name's on it.
What was his motive?
Do we know?
I don't think that Schofield's motive is sinister either.
I don't mean to throw him under the bus like he's a bad guy or a villain.
I do think it was weird that he didn't think to himself, okay, so I'm a relative nobody.
Why are strangers paying to sail me across the ocean to meet with people I don't know?
at oxford oh strangers did pay his way across to do there's nothing in schofield's life that would suggest that he would have had the funds to pay for that himself there's a couple things there that don't make a lot of sense including the the club that he was a part of in new york
uh with a you know dues that it would not be reasonable to presume someone of schofield's lack of employment would be able to afford so yeah he goes across the ocean and he meets with high society it's oxford right and
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