Alexandrian Cult Series

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THE
ALEXANDRIAN
CULT SERIES
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The Alexandrian Cult Series
BY
PETER S. RUCKMAN
B.A., B.D., M.A., Th.M., Ph.D.
BIBLE BAPTIST BOOKSTORE
P.O. Box 7135
Pensacola, FL 32534
Copyright © 2000 by Peter S. Ruckman
All rights reserved
ISBN 1-58026-700-9
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The Scripture quotations found herein are from the text of the Authorized King
James Version of the Bible.
Any deviations therefrom are not intentional.
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Table of Contents
ARTICLE ONE
“THE MISSING INFORMATION”
ARTICLE TWO
“The Root of the Trouble”
ARTICLE THREE
“Final Authority”
ARTICLE FOUR
“The Dual Authorities”
ARTICLE FIVE
“The Brain Washers”
ARTICLE SIX
“Some Case Histories”
ARTICLE SEVEN
“Some More Case Histories”
ARTICLE EIGHT
“Higher Education in America”
ARTICLE NINE
“BJU—Cult Headquarters”
ARTICLE TEN
“The Cult at Tennessee Temple”
ARTICLE ELEVEN
“Midwestern in Alexandria, Egypt”
ARTICLE TWELVE
“Saul and the Alexandrian Cult”
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
“Fuller Seminary and Prairie Bible Institute”
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
“More Cultic Garbage from the Cult”
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
“Endless Duplicity and Evasion”
ARTICLE SIXTEEN
“Rice, Dollar, and Their Fellow Apostates”
ARTICLE SEVENTEEN
“Revelation 22 and the Cult”
ARTICLE EIGHTEEN
“The ORIGINAL Greek Spook”
ARTICLE NINETEEN
ARTICLE TWENTY
“Oswald Smith and the Professional Liars”
ARTICLE TWENTY-ONE
J. Vernon McGee and Revelation 22:14
ARTICLE TWENTY-TWO
“Credit Where Credit is Due”
ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE
“Back to the Bible Broadcast”
ARTICLE TWENTY-FOUR
“The Death Ministries in America”
ARTICLE TWENTY-FIVE
Modern Christian Scholarship
ARTICLE TWENTY-SIX
“The Origins of all Death Ministries”
ARTICLE TWENTY-SEVEN
“Three ‘Godly’ Apostates”
ARTICLE TWENTY-EIGHT
“Rice and the Bean Bag of the Lord”
ARTICLE TWENTY-NINE
“Demons, Devils, and Dragons”
ARTICLE THIRTY
“A Brief Summary”
ARTICLE THIRTY-ONE
“Ezra, Nehemiah, and Cainan”
ARTICLE THIRTY-TWO
“Word for Word Translating”
ARTICLE THIRTY-THREE
“Another Summary”
ARTICLE THIRTY-FOUR
“The Bible is A BOOK: not ‘The Word of God’”
ARTICLE THIRTY-FIVE
“Autographs, Versions, and Revisions”
ARTICLE THIRTY-SIX
“Living a Life of Spiritual Sin”
ARTICLE THIRTY-SEVEN
“Fundamental Humanists”
ARTICLE THIRTY-EIGHT
“An Overview of ‘Ruckmanism’”
ARTICLE THIRTY-NINE
“A Typical Alexandrian Apostate”
ARTICLE FORTY
“A Typical Case History”
EPILOGUE
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
ARTICLE ONE
Beginning with this issue of the Bible Believers’ Bulletin, we will be bringing to our
readers material regarding the Alexandrian Cult. All of the articles in this series will be
written by Dr. Ruckman, and they will constitute a documented history of infidelity and
apostasy from the first-century church to the twentieth-century church. In this column,
there will appear with each section, beginning with the ninth article, a discussion of one or
more problem texts which are circulated by the Alexandrian Cult in an attempt to create
unbelief in the heart of the Christian. Along with these problem texts there will also
appear, from time to time, a detailed discussion of the problems in variants as found in
both Greek texts and English translations. In this first article Dr. Ruckman deals with what
he calls “the party line”: the standard set of lies which identify the Cult members.
“THE MISSING INFORMATION”
The twentieth-century Christian is constantly being bombarded with material on apostasy
and modernism. Every Fundamentalist or Conservative group in America has writers or
collators of material dealing with liberalism, neo-evangelicalism, ecumenicism, neo-
orthodoxy, etc. Strangely enough, one can find no material on HOW all of this infidelity
started.
In vain one will search the History of Fundamentalism in America by George Dollar or
Outside the Gate by Carl McIntire or any of the conservative literature about the
ecumenical movement (even the material by Webber from Tulsa, Oklahoma) to find out
HOW American Christianity got into the position it now occupies. There is an abundance
of material available about the “apostates” (Blake, Niebuhr, Tillich, Pike, Sock-man,
Weigle, Potest, Kagawa, et al.) and the “compromisers” (Campus Crusade, Fuller
Seminary, Wheaton College, Intervarsity Fellowship, etc.), but a tomb-like silence
descends on the historians and authors when they are called upon to tell us HOW these
groups and individuals got to their terminus—INFIDELITY to the Scriptures.
When one reads this mass of literature (I have examined over 2,000 pamphlets, 1,000
books, 1,000 magazines, and 300 church bulletins dealing with these matters) listing and
exposing the apostates, he is struck with the singular thought that none of them dare tell
HOW any of the apostates BEGAN their apostasy. Evidently we are dealing with an
international “conspiracy” in the Biblical realm that would put the Illuminati and the Free
Masons to shame. Neither Stuart Crane nor Johnny Todd is able to tell us HOW a
Bilderberger or a witch starts down the road to Humanism or Satanism. How does it
begin?
It must begin somewhere. How is it that we can find nothing in the writings of Warfield,
Machen, and Wilson (even where they deal with Liberalism) that identifies the starting
point of the apostate? Of course these men reject the Virgin Birth—why? Of course these
men reject the Deity of Christ—why? Of course they deny the “verbal, plenary inspiration
of the unread originals”—why? Does a man just suddenly pop up at the North Pole after
reading an Almanac and say, “I DON’T BELIEVE IN THE VIRGIN BIRTH”?
Before Bishop Pike began to fool with necromancy and seances, did he just decide, when
he was ten years old, that the “originals” couldn’t have been “verbally inspired”? Of
course not. Sin starts somewhere. Where does the sin of BIBLE REJECTION start? Never
mind how it ends or where it is NOW. What we are interested in is spotting its ORIGIN so
that we can avoid ever getting on its track.
Is that last sentence clear?
The Japanese say, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
What then is the FIRST step to religious Liberalism or Neo-evangelicalism? Never mind
wasting paper and shooting of your mouth about your “stand” against something that is
already here (and has been here nineteen centuries). If you don’t know HOW it started,
how do you know that you or your church (or school) has not already taken the FIRST
step in that direction? How are you so arrogantly “cocksure” of your position when you
don’t know what the first THREE steps are?
The first three steps are discussed nowhere in George Dollar’s History of Fundamentalism
in America. They are discussed nowhere in eight volumes of Philip Schaff’s History of the
Christian Church, and there is nothing in the Church Histories of Lagarde, Newman,
Latourette, Eusebius, or D’Aubigne that would clue us in on HOW a professing Christian
becomes an apostate. If one reads these histories, he will be told that the cause is:
1. They became formal and sacramental and ceased to practice the Bible in their lives.
(Why did they do this?)
2. They were impressed by German Rationalism and English Deism and ceased to believe
the Genesis account of creation. (Why were they impressed?)
3. They became lax in morals and fell away from the Catholic faith. (Why did they
become “lax in morals”?)
4. They followed a man who questioned the New Birth and the Blood Atonement. (Why
did they do this?)
5. They tried to build a kingdom on this earth and to control the state by the church. (Why
would anyone who studied the Bible do this?)
6. They ceased to study the Bible and become occupied with art, literature, and the
“humanities.” (What led them to do THAT?)
No major historian, living or dead, has ever answered the questions.
There seems to be a “bond of dialogue” between saved historians and unsaved liberals and
apostates when it comes to pinpointing the BEGINNINGS of apostasy in any age of the
church.
Charles Reese, a columnist for the Pensacola News Journal, says that he is often accused
of using defamatory and libelous language in referring to Jimmy Carter as a “LIAR.”
Reese’s defense is simple: He says that a man who says something that is untrue, and who
knows that it is not true when he says it, is a liar, whether he is a President or a jail bird.
With this truism in mind we shall list how the modern Christian educator and scholar can
be located in relation to the SOURCE and CAUSE of apostasy. The modern Christian