Oleg, I can give your belief system its proper name: Ruckmanism
"Ruckmanites," the disciples of Peter Ruckman (1921-2016), Czar of the KJV Onlyists, are known for:
their exaltation of the King James Bible;
their belief that it constitutes "advanced revelation;"
their belief "that it is the final, preserved word of God;
for their "ultra dispensationalism;"
their "aggressive - abrasive writing style;"
and for excoriating all those fellow Christians who disagree with them.
Compare random Peter Ruckman's statements with your own:
âThe A.V. 1611 reading, here, is superior to any Greek textâ (Peter Ruckman, The Christianâs Handbook of Manuscript Evidence, Pensacola Bible Press, 1970, p. 118).
âMistakes in the A.V. 1611 are advanced revelation!â (Ruckman, Manuscript Evidence, p. 126).
âA short handbook, such as this, will not permit an exhaustive account of the marvelous undesigned âcoincidencesâ which have slipped through the A.V. 1611 committees, unawares to them, and which give advanced light, and advanced revelation beyond the investigation of the greatest Bible students 300 year laterâ (Ruckman, Manuscript Evidence, p. 127).
âA little English will clear up the obscurities in any Greek textâ (Ruckman, Manuscript Evidence, p. 147).
âIf all you have is the âoriginal Greek,â you lose lightâ (Ruckman, Manuscript Evidence, p. 336).
âIf you are able to obtain a copy [of Ruckmanâs proposed new book] you will have, in your hands, a minimum of 200 advanced revelations that came from the inerrant English text, that were completely overlooked (or ignored) by every major Christian scholar since 90 A.D.â (Bible Believersâ Bulletin, Jan. 1994, pp. 2, 4).
âWe shall deal with the English Text of the Protestant Reformation, and our references to Greek or Hebrew will only be made to enforce the authority of that text or to demonstrate the superiority of that text to Greek and Hebrewâ (Peter Ruckman, Problem Texts, Preface, Pensacola Bible Institute Press, 1980, p. vii).
âObserve how accurately and beautifully the infallible English text straightens out Erasmus, Griesbach, Beza, Nestle, Aland, Metzger, Trench, Vincent, Davis, Wuest, Zodhiates, Elzevir, and Stephanus with the poise and grace of a swan as it smoothly and effectively breaks your arm with one flap of its wings. Beautiful, isnât it? If the mood or tense isnât right in any Greek text, the King James Bible will straighten it out in a hurryâ (Ruckman, Problem Texts, pp. 348, 349).
âThe original Hebrew had nothing to do with Genesis 1:1-3 at all [referring to Ruckmanâs heresy that the flood of 2 Peter 3:5-6 speaks of a flood that took place in Genesis 1:2]. It only muddied the issue. Hebrew is of no help at all in understanding the passageâ (Peter Ruckman, The Unknown Bible, Bible Baptist Bookstore, 1984, p. 67).
âThe King James test is the last and final statement that God has given to the world, and He has given it in the universal language of the 20th century ... The truth is that God slammed the door of Revelation shut in 389 B.C. and slammed it shut again in 1611â (Peter Ruckman, The Monarch of Books, Pensacola, 1973, p. 9).
Ruckman teaches that men are saved in different ways in different ages.
He believes men were saved by blood plus works in the Old Testament, by faith plus works in the Tribulation, and by works alone in the Millennium.
In "Millions Disappear: Fact or Fiction?," Ruckman says: âIf the Lord comes and you remain behind, then start working like a madman to get to heaven, because youâre going to have to. ... You must keep the Ten Commandments (all of them, Ecclesiastes 12:13), keep the Golden Rule (1 John 3:10), give your money to the poor, get baptized, take up your cross, hold out to the end of the Tribulation, wait for Jesus Christ to show up at the Battle of Armageddon, and be prepared to die for what you believe.
In the Tribulation you cannot be saved by grace alone, like you could before the Rapture.â[Note: Their beliefs contradict God's Word in Romans 4:1-8 which plainly states that both Abraham before the law and David under the law were saved by faith without works. This is the only plan of salvation God ever has had and ever will have - salvation by grace alone through faith alone based upon the shed blood of Jesus Christ alone. The Old Testament saints did not know what the New Testament saint knows, but Romans 4 makes it plain that the Old Testament saints were saved by faith without works. Like Abraham, they believed God and it was counted unto them for righteousness.
Those who are saved in the Tribulation will also be saved through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ and through this alone. âThese are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lambâ
(Revelation 7:14).]
Ruckman's writings are filled with godless fleshly name calling.Some of the choice names Ruckman calls those who disagree with him are âjackass,â âpoor, dumb, stupid red legs,â âsilly asses,â âapostolic succession of bloated egotists,â âtwo-bit junkies,â âtwo-faced, tin-horned punks,â âincredible idiots,â âegotistical jack legs,â âconservative asses whose brains have gone to seed,â âcheap, two-bit punks,â and âstupid, little, Bible-rejecting apostates.â
Dr. Ruckman can be exceedingly vulgar. He calls the New American Standard Version âmore of the same old godless, depraved crap.â (Satanâs Masterpiece--the New ASV, p. 67). In The Unknown Bible, p. 100, Ruckman says, âYou see how people get all screwed up?â
Ruckman believes it is God who has called him to speak like this: âGod called me to sit at this typewriter and pour forth VINEGAR, ACID, VITRIOL, AND CLEANING FLUID on the leading conservative and fundamental scholars of 1900 through 1990. ... God is in charge. He ... destines me to sit at this typewriter and LAMBASTE, SCALD AND RIDICULE these Bible rejecting fundamentalists who âbelieve the Bible is the Word of God,â ... I hereby dedicate myself anew to the task of DESTRUCTIVE CRITICISM AND NEGATIVE BLASTING against every adversary of that Holy Book...â
(The Bible Believers Bulletin, Dec. 1985).
Peter Ruckmanâs spirit and language is not that of the Bible. Ruckman claims to be fighting for a Holy Book, but does so in an unholy manner, and it is confusion.
James 3:13-17 says: âWho is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?
Let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.â
This passage from the King James Bible condemns Ruckmanism, and informs those with eyes to see that Ruckmanâs spirit is earthly, sensual, and devilish. Enjoying Ruckman because he âgets after those Bible pervertersâ is the same carnal spirit as enjoying a good dog fight when the dog on which you have bet is the biggest, meanest one around.
âSic âem, Pete, sic âem!â It is entertaining, and it is satisfying to the flesh, but God says bitter envying and strife is earthly, sensual, devilish. God says heavenly wisdom is peaceable, gentle and full of mercy.
2nd Timothy 2:24-26 says: âAnd the servant of the Lord must not strive: but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.â
The Lord Jesus and the apostles used some strong language, for instance, what Jesus called the Pharisees in Matthew 23. Paul, filled with the Spirit, spoke severely of the false teacher in Acts 13:9-10. The severe plainness with which the Spirit of God speaks of false teachers in passages such as 2nd Peter 2 and Jude is well known...
There is, however, a world of difference between the language used in the Bible and the language used by Peter Ruckman; between the spirit of God's chosen spokesmen, Peter, Paul and Jude, - and the spirit of Peter Ruckman.
There is also a distinct difference between the way the Spirit of God deals with a saved but erring man and the way He deals with an unregenerate corrupter of the gospel. There is a vast difference between the way the Lord Jesus Christ dealt with His own disciples and the way He dealt with the Pharisees.
That same distinction is evident in the way that Paul dealt with Peterâs hypocrisy in Galatians 2 and the way he dealt with the unsaved false teacher in Acts 13.
Yet Ruckman makes no difference between the Pope, a theological Christ-denying, Bible denier, or an erring fundamental evangelical brother in Christ. He lumps men such as John R. Rice and Stewart Custer together with John Paul II and Karl Barth and treats them in the same abrasive manner.
Ruckman holds many peculiar unknown doctrines and has a proud, cultic attitude - that he alone has truths that no one else in church history has ever known.
In bragging of his book "The Salient Verses," Mr. Ruckman makes these comments:
âIf you are able to obtain a copy [of Ruckmanâs proposed new book] you will have, in your hands, a minimum of 200 advanced revelations that came from the inerrant English text, that were completely overlooked (or ignored) by every major Christian scholar since 90 A.D. This would include all of the modern Bible revisers (1800-1999), all of the faculty members and staffs of every major âFundamentalâ (Conservative and Evangelical) seminary, university, and college in Europe and America since 1500, and every Greek and Hebrew scholar (or teacher) since 1611. ... Actually, if a Bible believer has this work he will have the accumulated knowledge of Cornelius Stam and Ethelbert Bullinger ... Clarence Larkin and C.I. Scofield, Ewing, Osborne, Tilton, and PTL ... Pember, Peters, Gaebelein, Pentecost, Lindsey, Kirban, Rockwood, Webber, and Van Impe ... plus the Puritans, Reformers, major evangelists (Moody, Sunday, Finney, Torrey, Wesley, etc.) and all that any Greek and Hebrew scholar ... ever found out - that was so - in the last 200 yearsâ (Peter Ruckman, Bible Believersâ Bulletin, Jan. 1994, pp. 2,4).
In "The Unknown Bible," Ruckman claims to hold to 14 âbiblical truthsâ which all other Bible teachers have overlooked. On page 347, Ruckman modestly claims: âDo you realize that in these last two chapters, you have learned a dozen things that were unknown to the greatest Bible teachers in the world? In 2000 years of church history, they havenât even been able to find the passage which dealt with these things we have been talking about.â
Some of Ruckmanâs long-overlooked âbiblical truthsâ include the following:
(1) Angels are thirty-three year old males without wings; and all women in the Church Age will receive thirty-three year old male bodies at the Rapture.
(2)
The plan of salvation for Tribulation saints is faith plus works and the plan of salvation in the Millennium is works alone.(3)
When the believer is born again, his soul is literally cut loose from the inside of his fleshly body. [Ruckman takes spiritual circumcision very literally!]
(4) Demons are winged creatures ranging in size from those of flies and mosquitoes to eagles and vultures.
(5)
Sexual unions constitute marriage in Godâs sight.(6) The soul is an invisible bodily shape. âThe problem is the word âsoul,â but since there isnât one pre-millennial, soul-winning, fundamentalist who knows what a soul is (see the entire library of books published by Eerdmans, Baker, Zondervan, and the Sword of the Lord before 1970) ... The soul in the Bible is an invisible bodily shape. In the Old Testament, the soul is almost synonymous with the body, for it is stuck to it till deathâ (Ruckman, Problem Texts, p. 145).
(7) The flood mentioned in 2 Peter 3 is not Noahâs flood but is one that supposedly occurred at the judgment of the earth, when Satan was cast out of Heaven. He admits that no other Bible teacher has ever held this view: âNow who could get a message so simple all muddled up? His Answer: Every major fundamental Bible scholar and teacher in the United States, without one exception... [until he came along].
[Note: God actually shut the door of revelation about 95-96 A.D. with the completion of the New Testament.]
There is a clear verse in the Bible that refutes the position of Peter Ruckman and Ruckmanism.
"The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that proclaimed it"
(Psalm 68:11).
Oleg, for your soul's sake, read the Bible through your own eyes.
olegig wrote:
Zemirah "The blood Jesus shed was human blood."
Are you saying Mary, the mother of Jesus, was impregnated by a human, maybe Joseph? Was this human blood the blood used to cover the Holy Place in Heaven?
You do have a strange belief system, I wish you would give it a name.
Perhaps it's the commentators you read, some call them common taters just trying to make a buck.