The sad case of Peter S. Ruckman

This is interesting. I came across a guy who was yelling out that people were going to burn in hell as I walked downtown Chicago. I stopped to talk with him and he said he was a KJVO. I then said the original writings are in Greek and Hebrew, to which he declared that the KJV was superior to the original. He must have been taught that. He went to Jack Hyles church in Hammond, Indiana.

 

My view on Peter Ruckman is to not have a view on Peter Ruckman. As far as I know I have never read the first thing he has written and I have heard only a portion of two or three of his sermons over the years. I have heard many who have been personally aqquainted with him and his school. Some of the great missionaries and preachers I have met of our day are associated in some way with him. My personal belief that God has preserved his word in the English language is a result of my study is my own and has nothing to do with Peter Ruckman.

Having said all that, and considering who it is that criticizes the KJVO issue, I have to chuckle. People who believe John Calvin and Augustine are some of Ruckman's main critics. If there were ever more false doctrines about everything God ever said than the system of Calvinism I can't imagine what it could be. I honestly believe that every doctrine of the Bible is twisted to some degree in Calvinism, beginning with the doctrine of God.

Therefore, if these men were not the greatest critics of Bible believers, whoever they are, I would be surprised. This system does not believe a single word the Bible says and that is the reason they are not concerned with which Bible says it.

 

Not so sad. Good teacher, street preacher, and Bible defender. Rather caustic, but street preaching tends toward that, and he got some things wrong, like most good folks do.