Alexandrian Cult Series

266 Pages·2016·8.34 MB·English

by  Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

THE
ALEXANDRIAN CULT SERIES
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Table of Contents
“The Missing Information” ...............................................1
“The Root of the Trouble” .....................................................6
“Final Authority”.....................................................................11
“The Dual Authorities” .........................................................17
“The Brain Washers” ............................................................22
“Some Case Histories”..........................................................28
“Some More Case Histories”..............................................33
“Higher Education in America” ........................................38
“BJU—Cult Headquarters” ................................................43
“The Cult at Tennessee Temple” ......................................48
“Midwestern in Alexandria, Egypt” ................................54
“Saul and the Alexandrian Cult”.......................................60
“Fuller Seminary and Prairie Bible Institute”...............67
“More Cultic Garbage from the Cult” ............................73
“Endless Duplicity and Evasion” ......................................80
“Rice, Dollar, and Their Fellow Apostates” .................85
“Revelation 22 and the Cult” .............................................91
“The ORIGINAL Greek Spook” ......................................98
“Cornelius Stam, a Genuine Alexandrian”..................102
“Oswald Smith and the Professional Liars” ................108
J. Vernon McGee and Revelation 22:14.......................115
“Credit Where Credit is Due” .........................................122
“Back to the Bible Broadcast” ........................................129
“The Death Ministries in America” ..............................136
Modern Christian Scholarship.........................................143
“The Origins of all Death Ministries.............................148
“Three ‘Godly’ Apostates” ...............................................155
“Rice and the Bean Bag of the Lord” ...........................164
“Demons, Devils, and Dragons” .....................................171
“A Brief Summary”.............................................................177
“Ezra, Nehemiah, and Cainan”........................................184
“Word for Word Translating” .........................................109
“Another Summary”............................................................199
“The Bible is A BOOK: not ‘The Word of God’” .. 204
“Autographs, Versions, and Revisions” ......................210
“’’Living a Life of Spiritual Sin”....................................215
“Fundamental Humanists..................................................220
“An Overview of ‘Ruckmanism’”..................................226
“A Typical Alexandrian Apostate” ................................232
“A Typical Case History”..............................................237
Epilogue.................................................................................244
Appendix 1.............................................................................255
Appendix 2.............................................................................256
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 twenti­
eth-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 trans­
lations. 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 be­
ing bombarded with material on apostasy and modern­
ism. 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 Fundamen­
talism in America by George Dollar or Outside the
Gate by Carl Mclntire or any of the conservative litera­
ture about the ecumenical movement (even the mate­
rial by Webber from Tulsa, Oklahoma) to find out HOW
American Christianity got into the position it now oc­
cupies. There is an abundance of material available about
the “apostates” (Blake, Niebuhr, Tillich, Pike, Sock-
man, Weigle, Potest, Kagawa, et al.) and the “compro­
misers” (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. Evi­
dently 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 origi­
nals”—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 inter­