The Power Of Negative Thinking

208 Pages·2001·4.14 MB·English

by  Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING
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THE POWER OF
NEGATIVE
THINKING
By
Peter S. Ruckman
B.A., B.D., M.A., Th.M., Ph.D.
President and Founder of
Pensacola Bible Institute
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Copyright © 2005 by Peter S. Ruckman
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ISBN 1-58026-736-X
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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................ix
Chapter Page
1 The Greatest Positive Thinkers in History .. 1
2 The Holy Scriptures’ Diagnosis
of Man’s Mind............................................39
3 Positive Thinking in the Scriptures..............76
4 Playing With the Two-edged Sword...........103
5 “Double Speak” and the
Dissenting Minority.................................119
6 Summing Up the Historical Evidence.....147
7 A Genuine History of Murder.....................176
Epilogue..........................................................189

PREFACE
After stumbling through somewhere around 24,000
books (since 1931), I have had plenty of time to com­
pare notes” that deal with the minds of men. The “mind
of man” expresses itself in thought, art, music, and
action, but mainly in literature. Twenty-three million
books in the Library of Congress testify to this truth.
Since 1949, I have been able to compare the world’s
literature with the literature of Moses, David, Isaiah,
Peter, James, John, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Paul, et al.
I have come to some shocking conclusions and by
“shock” I mean “awesome” conclusions that would
shock a serial killer or an abnormal-psychiatrist as
quickly as it would shock a combat infantryman or an
FBI investigator. “Awesome” would not be the word
for what pops up after a careful perusal of the best
brains that mankind ever produced say Einstein,
Planck, Heisenberg, Hawking, Shakespeare, Tolstoy,
Hemingway, Zweig, Sir James Simpson, Freud, Jung,
Von Braun, Stephen Ambrose, Bernard Shaw, Eugene
O’Neil, Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, Mao Tse-tung,
Darwin, Marx, et al., for example. What pops up is
“positive thinking” and “possibility thinking” and “hav­
ing faith in yourself’ or “believing in yourself, or tak­
ing pride in your work” or “believe you can do it and
you can,” etc., turns out to be the surest ways to self
destruction and the destruction of your family (and
nation) that any sinner could take. That is, nearly ev­
erything recommended and taught in the Western and
Eastern systems of religions and education that was
taught for the purpose of progress, culture, improve­
ment, and “making the world a better place to live in”
(1200-2000) was more deadly than GRID, syphilis,
leprosy, small pox, influenza, hurricanes, typhoons, tor­
nadoes, earthquakes, nuclear bombs, or ignorance, pov­
erty, disunity, and crime.
What it amounts to when you examine the writings
of Hegel, James, Joyce, Fichte, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,
Semler, Voltaire, Descartes, Renan, Wilde, Brigham
Young, Joseph Smith, Lachmann, Tischendorf, Hort,
Schaff, Ridpath, Lessing, Schweitzer, Lloyd Douglas,
N. V. Peale, St. Francis, Dumas, DeMauppasant, et al.
as closely as you examine the writings of Bertrand Rus­
sell, Henry James, Tom Paine, Emerson, Dickens,
Thackery, Thoreau, Aristotle, Aquinas, Neander, Fisher,
Kurtz, Latourette, Froom, Madam Blavatsky, Emil Cady,
M. B. P. Eddy, et al., you see that nearly every wise
man, every poet, every intellectual, every philanthro­
pist, naturalist, pragmatist, humanist, Catholic, Mos­
lem, philosopher, scientist, fiction writer, historian, Bud­
dhist, Hindu, Jew, and “do gooder” had simply attempted
to get mankind to IGNORE or DENY the contents of
one Book which contained two “Testaments.”
Even where the author professed to believe “the
Book” (or some things taken from the Book) once his
pen (or pencil or stylus or typewriter or word proces­
sor, etc.) crossed what the Book said about “MAN” or
the world system and the future of both, he denied
(many times sweetly, gently, and even piously) every
word of it. It was as if one single spirit (described in
Eph. 2:1-2) authored more than 20,000,000 books
whose authors all had the same objective: replace the
NEGATIVE truths given in the Book (where they dealt
with man’s heart, mind, and nature) and present a com­
pletely different picture of “man.” The same may be
said of any passage in either Testament that deals with