The Puritan movement represents a segment of Protestantism that, despite Protestantism's general errors regarding Trinitarianism, Sunday worship, and the immortality of the soul, historically maintained a steadfast commitment to obeying the Ten Commandments, with the notable exception of the fourth commandment concerning the Sabbath. This moral seriousness was so pronounced that the laws of the original North American colonies in the 1600s and early 1700s often read as though drawn directly from Deuteronomy, reflecting a law-abiding, God-fearing orientation among Puritans. Before the nineteenth century, Protestantism at large, and Puritanism in particular, remained basically moral in character. This Puritan foundation stands in sharp contrast to the antinomian shift that occurred through the influence of John Nelson Darby and Cyrus Scofield. Darby's dispensationalism, which divided history into distinct eras during which God supposedly dealt with mankind differently, set in motion ideologies that changed Protestant morality forever. Scofield, who fell completely under the sway of Darby's dispensational framework, propagated these ideas widely through his popular Reference Bible, teaching that the law belonged only to a specific historical dispensation and was something God replaced with grace. This false opposition between law and grace led to the conclusion that believers living in the "Dispensation of Grace" no longer needed to obey God's law, even though Scofield's own notes acknowledged the law as "holy, just, good and spiritual" before undermining this by calling it "a ministry of condemnation, death, and the divine curse." The connection to Puritans becomes explicit in the assertion that Darby and Scofield provided Satan with ready tools "to knock the props out from under the more law-abiding and God-fearing Puritans." This represents a direct spiritual assault on the Puritan legacy of moral obedience, replacing it with the antinomianism that now pervades nominal Christianity, where most consider God's law a curse rather than a blessing. The Rapture doctrine itself, which Darby popularized and which found its greatest evangelical push through Scofield's Reference Bible, rode into acceptance on the coattails of this dispensational teaching. Thus, the historical faithfulness of the Puritans to divine law serves as a benchmark against which the destructive influence of Darby's and Scofield's teachings can be measured, illustrating how antinomianism displaced a once law-honoring strand of Protestant faith and paved the way for the widespread acceptance of the Rapture doctrine among fundamentalist evangelicals.