Arno C. Gaebelein

[JM]

http://historicist.com/arno/index.htm

Is any of this true?

By the time Scofield died in 1921, the reference bible was selling briskly. At this point Gaebelein and his backers decided to open a seminary on the buckle of the bible belt. But in 1921, a Yiddish speaking orthodox Jewish rabbi from New York couldn’t just ride his horse into Dallas and open a seminary. Again, Arno needed a front through whom he could operate.

In place of Scofield, he chose close friend Lewis Sperry Chafer 28 to be the first President of Dallas Theological Seminary. Unlike Scofield, Chafer had legitimate credentials and no criminal record. Frank remembers Chafer visited their home as did the other founders of DTS. 29 So once again, Arno’s home in Harlem was where it was happening.
Just as soon as Chafer had founded the new school, Gaebelein took an active role. He became one of Dallas’s first extramural lecturers. 30 He would come down one month out of the year. DTS became a bastion of dispensational premillenialism throughout the world.
Shortly before Arno died in 1945, Harry Ironside came to visit and as they talked a question was posed; “Dr. Gaebelein, have you ever been immersed?” Arno replied, “No, I have never been immersed. I have never felt that immersion was the only mode of baptism”. 31
Who was this man that spent a lifetime hiding in the shadows of an illusion he created. He wasn’t a Baptist, a Methodist or a Jew. He worked with Bolsheviks, Jesuits, Spiritualists as well as Christians. He was a national leader of the Zionist movement when most Zionists were atheists.
All men seemed to speak well of him but Jesus warned “All men speak well of false prophets”.
Scofield is known by many as one of the greatest prophets of the 20th century but the man who created him is known by few and remains an enigma.

 

[lightninboy]

Well, I guess Googling Arno C. Gaebelein seems to confirm it.

But what be proved if it were true?

 

[LamorakDesGalis]

http://historicist.com/arno/index.htm

Is any of this true?

Its a mixture of outright lies, guilt-by-association and "poisoning the well" tactics. I wouldn't trust what they wrote.

DTS was founded in 1924, not 1921 as the quote implies. The article is outright false in calling him a "Orthodox Jewish rabbi." Gaebelein had a very successful Christian ministry to the Jews. AC Gaebelein was also ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church and pastored churches in the Northeast US.

Basically the website is doing a character assassination against a very well-respected and godly evangelical Christian.

They even list Gail Riplinger as a source in their bibliography.

Believing in Riplinger's New Age Bible Versions is the equivalent of believing the moon is really made of cheese.


LDG

 

[JM]

It seemed so out in left field that I couldn't believe if it were true, why I hadn't heard the story before.

Thanks.

 

[JM]

The Annotated Bible
by
Arno Clement Gaebelein
[SIZE=+1]1861-1942[/SIZE]

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http://thegems.shellworld.net/a_c_gaebelein.html

Just found it online.
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[lightninboy]

There does seem to be a contradiction.

But in 1921, a Yiddish speaking orthodox Jewish rabbi from New York couldn’t just ride his horse into Dallas and open a seminary.

He wasn’t a Baptist, a Methodist or a Jew.

JM, are you an Acts 2 dispy?

 

[JM]

There does seem to be a contradiction.

But in 1921, a Yiddish speaking orthodox Jewish rabbi from New York couldn’t just ride his horse into Dallas and open a seminary.

He wasn’t a Baptist, a Methodist or a Jew.

JM, are you an Acts 2 dispy?

I'm kinda, sorta nothing right now, just a Christian.