How to Teach The Bible by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

Author:Dr. Peter S. Ruckman [Ruckman, Dr. Peter S.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: BB Bookstore
Published: 2011-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

LESSON EIGHT

The Theme of the Bible

It is now time to show the student the main theme of the Bible, which is not salvation or “God revealing Himself to man” or some other little Alexandrian doo hickey that the theologians invented to get God out of their own private lives and incomes. The main theme of the Bible is “THE KINGDOM.” This includes “THE KING,” so the words “God” and “Lord” and “Jesus” occur over and over again, but even then “the King” is only the main character in the Kingdom. He is its central figure; the THEME is still THE KINGDOM, for the main issue in life, death, and judgment is FINAL AUTHORITY. This is the first “fundamental of the faith” and takes precedence over anything and everything found in the creedal statements of Bob Jones University, Baptist Bible College, the Sword of the Lord, the Westminster and Heidelberg Confessions, the Catholic catechisms, the Thirty-Nine Articles, the Augsburg Confession, and Wesley’s Handbook.

For this reason, the “historic position” has been that the kingdom is NOT the main theme of the Bible. Man is an anarchist at heart and does NOT want to be ruled by God (see 1 Sam. 8:1–9 and Luke 19:14). Modern Fundamentalism (say, the faculties, staffs, and presidents of every major Christian school in America) are ANARCHISTS. That is why they have dual (or triple) authorities. It enables them to act as “God” in giving the final decision or final judgment on any issue or matter. Since we have gone into this basic, fundamental truth on at least four dozen occasions before, we will here forbear.

When the student is taught “The Kingdom,” he should be taught as all of the previous lessons have been taught: he should compare Scripture with Scripture and lean on the Author of the Scripture for understanding of the Scripture, being assured that he IS reading the Scriptures, just as surely as the Ethiopian eunuch or the Bereans read them (Acts 8, 17). When I mentioned the Seven Mysteries, the Seven Sevens, the Seven Baptisms, and the Seven Judgments, I did not mean that they should simply be noted, but that they must be STUDIED. For example, a lesson on the Judgment Seat of Christ should define the “gold, silver, precious stones,” and the “wood, hay, stubble.” It should discuss the five crowns to be given out as rewards, and all Scripture references should be turned to and read. We are teaching THE BIBLE, not “the historic Baptist position regarding a Congress of Fundamentalism” as it was established by “good, godly, recognized, militant scholars” who “boldly stood for the faith” after ROME lost its power over their families, businesses, lives, and churches. The Judge (at the Judgment Seat of Christ) should be described, with His method or manner of judgment, the things that He will judge, etc. When we mentioned the second “mystery” of the Seven Mysteries, we intended for the teacher to describe the two natures of the believer, how the second nature came about, what it is connected to, what it was severed from, Who did this, and how it was done.

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