Ruckman Quotes

We teach the student of Greek that the KEYS to understanding anything and everything in the Scripture—both the fundamental truths and the “deeper things”—are a HUMBLE HEART and a BELIEVING MIND.

Some men, in twenty years, cover the ground that it takes other men fifty and sixty years to cover.

One day I said, “Paul, what is the greatest truth you ever learned in your years as a pool shark, ‘pitch man,’ and stick man on the midways?” He grinned and said, “Ruckman, I learned that you can’t CON an honest man.

No Christian group can improve itself by going one step beyond believing the Bible and teaching it. God has limited His search warrant to “search the scriptures” (John 5:39) and His “study grants” to study-ing “the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15).

This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.”  

This is the same trouble in marriages. The hardest thing you have to do, as a man, is to keep that strange fascination and infatuation for your wife that you had for her in the days when you began your engagement. And the hardest thing a woman ever has to do is to keep the admiration and respect she had for her husband before he said “I do.” 2:5

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, and good will toward men.”   No glory to God, no peace. Got it? Does higher education give the glory to God? Does the news media? Do the doctors and lawyers? Do you? God gave America up to sex perverts (literally: see Rom. 1:26–27) because Americans did not give Him glory (literally: see Rom. 1:21). No glory to God, no peace.

In 1991, the editors in The Scientific American were saying that environmental ecology was a MORAL issue. The same editors (with the editors of every major daily newspaper in America, plus CBS, NBC, and ABC) were treating premarital sex, use of drugs, pornography, sex perversion, and fornication as “LIFESTYLES” with no moral overtones. “Good and evil” could only be applied to people who opposed federal control of businesses and property. They were “good” if they submitted to control and “fines,” but they were “evil” if they had any freedom. “Good and evil” are not even talked about in any high school or college in America where they touch adultery, fornication, sex perversion, stealing, cursing, cheating, pornography, or lying. You can’t even post a standard for “good and evil” (the Ten Commandments) in the hallway of a public school. At the same time, you are being taught that it is “EVIL” to put your garbage in the wrong place. What has happened?

Romans 9:17: “For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up….” The “scripture” said to Pharaoh? Why, in the book of Exodus there were no Scriptures around when Moses talked with Pharaoh. Moses wrote the book of Exodus after those events took place. The Scripture didn’t say it to Pharaoh. Who said to Pharaoh, “Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee”? Who said that? Why, the Lord said it. Paul is kind of careless, isn’t he? The idea of putting the word “scripture” for the word “God”! Isn’t that kind of careless? Paul must have been a Bibliolater.

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Listen, a saved sinner is a man who has put his faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. But a Christian is a saved sinner who has fallen in love.

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Judas Iscariot.

The Supreme Court has already defined “humanism” as a religion (I’ve got the stuff right here where they made the statement, when they made it, and the judges who agreed with it). Humanism and atheism is what is taught in every public school in America “year ‘round.” That is NOT “separation of Church and State,” if by “church” you mean a “religion.

Now, nowhere does one find these kind of semantics more confounding and stupefying than when one picks up some peculiar heading in a newspaper which talks about “the Islamic Nation.” Islam is NOT a nation. It has never been a nation. Look it up in a dictionary. You can have Islamic “nations” with State-Churches. In these cases, the nation (or country) is the State (political), and the church is Islam (a religion). So if you taught in the schools anything that Moslems believe, you would be “joining Church and State.” All Islamic nations are Church-States. But if you pray or read the Bible, you wouldn’t be joining anything to anything.

Years ago, a Liberal, modernistic preacher came down from a very restless night and sat down in the breakfast nook at the table. His wife fixed him a cup of coffee as he sat there pale and shaken. She asked, “What’s wrong?” He said, “I had a terrible dream last night. I dreamed I died and came up to a cloud. There was someone on that cloud who pointed his finger at me, and it looked like he had a hole in his hand. This one who was standing on the cloud pointed his finger at me and said, ‘Preacher, where are the souls of your wife and children?’ I said, ‘Souls? What souls?’ He pointed his finger at me and said, ‘Preacher, where are the souls of your mailman and your TV repairman and your newspaper boy?’ I said, ‘I don’t understand what you mean by souls. I don’t know where they are.

What we have here are two words that pop up which, when applied to what the Koran teaches and Moslems believe, don’t really mean anything. The first of these words is “Islam,” which doesn’t mean anything because it can only be applied to a single nation. There is no such thing as “THE Islamic Nation.” There are more than two dozen. “Islam,” in itself, means nothing, because the word itself (meaning “submission” or “obedience”) is applied to a dead sinner who never got out of the grave. You are to obey him.

Then up pops a dead man, a fornicating killer who practiced polygamy and slavery, and he tells you that if you obey him you are obeying Allah! “Whoever obeys the Messenger, he indeed obeys Allah. And whoever turns away, We have not sent thee as a keeper over them” (Sura 4:80).

When President Bush tried to put a black man on the Supreme Court (1991), he discovered that the NAACP was not really interested in promoting “Colored People” at all. It was interested in promoting left-wing, radical, black Socialists. Suddenly “color” had very little to do with it. Political stance determined the “evaluation.” The press was not against queers, dopeheads, sex perverts, atheists, and Communists; they were against conservative Americans. Apartheid. Conservative Americans, of any race, have always outnumbered queers, dopeheads, atheists, and sex perverts.

living the good life does not depend upon believing and obeying Allah at all; it depends upon believing “Allah AND His Messenger” (Sura 9:62, 71, 84, 94; 59:4; 63:5). “The Messenger” refers to the speaker: the speaker is Mohammed. This means that there is no such thing as Islam at all. It is Mohammedanism, but you put Islam there to cover up the fact that the whole religion came from an epileptic, sex-crazy, illiterate, fornicating killer who enjoyed killing people who didn’t accept His religion.

America: “Don’t worry; God never said that or anything like that. That was just Jeremiah back in ‘pre-scientific times’ using hyperbole and figures of speech.” At least that is the news media interpretation of the passage. The news media proved the “apple” in Eden was an “apricot,” Christ wore a Roman Catholic shroud, Eve was a black woman in South Africa named “Lucy,” Hell was a Dark Age figment of the imagination, Christ was a fornicator, Paul was a homosexual, and homosexuals are not to be killed in the Bible (Lev. 19, 20); they are to be given access to your children. That is the news media. That is the news media in 1995.   “Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

What modern Christians don’t seem to get is that God’s love is found in one person: Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:39); it is found in one place: at Calvary (Rom. 5:8). Just because God is good, merciful, and longsuffering to a sinner doesn’t mean He loves him enough to keep him out of Hell if that sinner rejects the payment God requires for that sinner’s sins.

We now have in one book (the Gospel of John) FOUR references that define what TRUTH is; not one of them match what any child is being taught in any federal school in America or Europe. No. 1. One man is “THE TRUTH” (John 14:6). No. 2. This man was sent here to bear witness to “THE TRUTH.” 3. His Spirit (John 16:13) has the job of guiding and leading men into “ALL TRUTH” (John 16:13). No. 4. The “WORDS” Jesus Christ spoke are “LIFE” and “SPIRIT” (John 6:63) because He was speaking the WORDS of the Author of truth (John 17:17).

God is not a man, so His wrath and His love work together in perfect harmony, for one becomes a balance for the other. For example, for a man to argue that hell is impossible and that a loving God could not send a helpless human being there for ever and ever is an unbalanced view of God which comes from a mental sickness on the sinner’s part. To argue that hell is impossible on the grounds that you don’t want to believe it is nonsense. And if you continue to reject the truth of it, after it has been revealed, on the grounds that you don’t believe or you can’t “prove it,” that only proves that you are mentally sick.

In my work on The Alexandrian Cult Series, I have quotes from popular and well-known Bible teachers who will tell you that the way to find out what God says is to find out what the “originals” say. That sure leaves some of you who can’t read Hebrew or Greek in a fix, doesn’t it? But don’t worry; if you can’t read Hebrew or Greek, just read the American Standard Version, and you will get as close to what God said as you can get. I would hate to think that the closest I can get to what God said is a version that gets rid of Christ’s Deity from 1 Timothy 3:16 and the Trinity from 1 John 5:7 and the Lord’s virgin birth from Luke 2:33 and the blood atonement from Colossians 1:14 and the infallible proofs of His resurrection from Acts 1:3 . . . , but why go on? The American Standard Version gets rid of 36,000 of God’s words; the New International Version gets rid of 64,000 of them. If that is as close as I can get, “I pray thee have me excused” (cf. Luke 14:18–19).

3. A test doesn’t end until it has accomplished its purpose. If God is testing you in a matter, the testing will end when God’s purpose with you is accomplished and not before.

For that reason, we stick to the AV Bible, 1611, taken from the Textus Receptus, which was not written between A.D. 346 and 500, when this seventh head of Satan assumed a religious “holy” form. Bible‑believing Christians go by the Greek Textus Receptus of the Eastern Greek Church—not the Western Roman Church. Bible‑believers go back to the original Christian religion of the Bible‑believing Christianity, which used a Syrian‑type Text from papyrus of the first, second, and third centuries, and preserved these in Byzantine manuscripts of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries, in Asia through Asia Minor, and then through the Balkans to Germany and England.

DEMONSTRATION. And to this proposition every philosopher since Comte would agree (see pp. 110–115). If there is one thing that all of the philosophers would agree upon when discussing “science,” it would be that the discipline would have to PROVE what it professed to believe.

The Biblical rule is simple. If any verse in either Testament does not contradict or deny something found in a Pauline epistle it CAN be applied to a New Testament Christian. Hundreds of verses (mainly in the Proverbs, Psalms, Job, and Exodus) can be found in the Old Testament that are applicable to Christian belief and conduct, but once a verse is pulled out of even Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John that contradicts a Pauline doctrinal statement—did you get what I said? I said a “doctrinal” statement; I did NOT say “an inspirational” statement or a “devotional teaching”—it is to be judged in the light of Paul’s advanced revelations which Jesus Christ Himself said would be advanced revelations not given to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Don’t