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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.

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Sample Book Review

Biblical Freedom from Religious Oppression reveals how Evangelical and Fundamentalist Churches, which interpret the Bible literally and claim perfect adherence to it, actually disagree with the Bible on a number of issues.

K. Scott Schaeffer supports these claims in a surprising manner: He beats Fundamentalists at their own game by taking Bible-based Christianity to a new level, examining every verse in the Bible that addresses each issue. Schaeffer calls this approach the Every-Verse Method. He asserts that it’s a better way to uncover the Bible’s teachings than the pick-your-favorite-verse method employed by most Bible-Believing Christians.

Schaeffer applies this method to the issues of Christian freedom, creationism, fasting, alcohol, non-Christian Friendship, divorce, sexual thought, Christian politics, oppression of the poor, and judgmentalism, among others. In each instance, he does an exceptional job of exposing the non-biblical or anti-biblical nature of Fundamentalist views.

This isn’t the first Christian book that seeks to free us from the many rules of Fundamentalism. Other authors have tried to do so by turning us away from a literal view of the Bible. Biblical Freedom from Religious Oppression, on the other hand, may be the first book to oppose Fundamentalism by taking the Bible more literally than the Fundamentalists do.

Anyone who holds a negative view of Fundamentalism, but a positive view of the Bible, should read this book. And even those who think the Bible is oppressive might learn from reading Biblical Freedom from Religious Oppression that it’s not so bad, after all.