ALEXANDRIAN CULT SERIES Other Materials Available

THE ALEXANDRIAN CULT SERIES Other Materials Available By Dr. Peter S. Ruckman: * Bible Believer’s Commentary Series * Beginning and Advanced Bible Study Material * In-Depth Apologetics * Numerous Pamphlets on Selected Topics * Variety of Gospel Tracts * Audio Cassettes * Video Cassettes Also Available: * AV 1611 Bibles * Study Helps * Concordances * Biographies * Evangelism Material * Material by Other Authors and Speakers For FREE Current Catalogue write: BIBLE BAPTIST BOOKSTORE P.O. Box 7135 Pensacola, FL 32534 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 PUBLISHER’S NOTE The Scripture quotations found herein are from the text of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible. Any deviations therefrom are not intentional. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage, retrieval system, multimedia, or Internet system, without permission in writing from the publisher. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 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 educator or scholar (“godly” and “separated” of course) inherits 1,850 years of infidelity preserved through “Christian” scholarship and passed faithfully on from one generation to another through what we call the “Scholars Union,” or more accurately, “THE ALEXANDRIAN CULT.” Cult members can be spotted easily by the fact that they repeat in their generation three or more of the following lies. 1. The original Greek text says … . 2. THE Greek text says … . 3. The BEST manuscripts say … . 4. Second Timothy 3:16 applies only to the “original manuscripts.” 5. Erasmus’ Greek text is a Roman Catholic Greek text.

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