THE AUTHOR

About the Author

K. Scott Schaeffer has spent over 4000 hours of his adult life studying the Bible and its background. Since 1990, he has lived in Tennessee, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and has been active in the Southern Baptist church, the Presbyterian Church of America, the Bible Fellowship Church, the Assemblies of God Church, the Non-Denominational Church, and the Methodist Church. Also, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Belmont University, a Southern Baptist college, in 1993.

Scott has witnessed varying degrees of religious oppression in most of these institutions and, unlike most pastors, is free from loyalty to the theologies of these and other denominations. He now devotes his life to exposing the differences between biblical teaching and church tradition.

Biography

Scott grew up in a Pennsylvania Dutch (but not Amish) family near Boyertown, PA. He was born to an 18-year old father and a 15-year old mother, who remained married until Scott’s mother passed away in 2000. While his family was not particularly religious during his childhood, Scott attended Sunday school and confirmation at a local U.C.C. church.

He came to faith in Christ in 5th grade, thanks to a combination of God answering some of his prayers in miraculous fashion and the testimonies of Scott’s 5th grade teacher, Grace Stoop. She was a pastor’s wife who spoke frequently of God’s involvement in her life. By hearing her stories, Scott learned that Christianity wasn’t only about where we go when we die, but that God is actively involved in our lives on earth, too.

After high school, Scott attended the Berks Campus of Penn State in Reading, PA to study economics. While he enjoyed economics and understood it well, he was then lured away to Nashville, TN by Belmont University’s Music Business program in 1990. Scott received his BBA from Belmont in 1993. However, it was Belmont’s religion classes, not its music and business classes, that would be of most benefit, as they introduced him to the Bible’s background.

While Scott didn’t get very far in the music business, he found that God’s reason for leading him to Nashville was to experience the Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christianity that had been so rare in PA. During the Nashville years, Scott regularly attended church, adult Sunday school, small groups, Bible studies, and taught children’s Sunday school. It was there that Scott began to study the Bible and its background a couple hours every day for many years.

Scott returned to PA in 1996 and settled in Bethlehem. There he became a member of the Lehigh Valley Amateur Astronomical Society where he ran a high school explorer post. Scott had studied astronomy since childhood, and as a result of his enthusiasm for it, often found himself in the midst of creationism discussions among Christians in both Tennessee and Pennsylvania. This experience would prove invaluable in writing the Creationism chapter in his book, Biblical Freedom from Religious Oppression.

From 1993 to 2007, Scott earned his living in corporate sales. Scott tried his best to sell honestly, even though he was often under pressure from management to do otherwise. In 2006, out of frustration over the deceptive nature of the corporate sales world, Scott chose a new direction in life: he began research for a book employing the Every-Verse Method; something Scott had contemplated writing since 2000. Scott’s corporate sales experience, along with his knowledge of economics, played a major role in producing the book’s largest chapter on greed and oppression of the poor.

Scott left sales entirely in 2007 and began to work full-time on writing Biblical Freedom from Religious Oppression.