King James Onlyism versus Scholarship Onlyism by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

Author:Dr. Peter S. Ruckman [Ruckman, Dr. Peter S.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: BB Bookstore
Published: 2011-08-18T04:00:00+00:00

EPILOGUE

THE DEAD AIR SPACES

Many long years ago, I was, among other things, a com­mercial radio announcer. Among many of the things we had to do as “DJs” would be to “cue up” records on a “Gates Console” and then hold them with our fingers until the “in­troduction” was made. We would then release our fingers off the record, and if you had it cued in properly, there was no “dead air” between the announcement (“Here, now, is Peggy Lee!”) and the first note of the music. If the record was miscued it would “wow”; that is, if you had turned it too far around. If it was not turned around far enough, there would be “dead air” space between the announcement and the piece. When a DJ miscued a record, we called this a “fluff,” and we had a “fluff box” on the console where each DJ had to contribute twenty­-five cents to a “slush fund.” That is what we used to buy new records. The “fluff” box never lacked money.

Now, the Bible student who tends to get swept off his feet with all of the “documented facts” presented by the Christian scholars, needs to notice two drastic DEAD AIR spaces right in the middle of supposedly objective and scholarly approaches. First of all, however, he should observe the mass of material accumulated by those who want to nullify the power and author­ity of the English Protestant Reformation text. The radical fanaticism with which apostate Fundamentalists and dead or­thodox Conservatives arm themselves, defies a comparison in secular history, unless it would be something like the Marian Cult giving Fatima credit for Russia breaking down econom­ically, or Himmler going through his Wotan-Thor rites for the elite SS leaders, or perhaps, Adolph himself haranguing the crowds at Nuremberg and the Berlin Sportspalast. But even these demonstrations are mild to the zeal and efforts displayed by Strouse, Waite, Pickering, Hodges, Farstad, Dell, Martin, Dun­can, Combs, Sherman, Ross, Hudson, and others, when it comes to their desire to tear a Book out of your hands and make you rely on them and their friends for your authority.

I am not “whistling Dixie.” I have the material right here in my office and in my home. In the last one hundred years (and especially in the last thirty years), the Alexandrian Cult has “outdone” themselves so many times you wouldn’t think they would have enough breath left to blow a gnat off their noses. You talk about “all-out efforts” and “total commitment”!

No martyr or missionary to the foreign field was ever as anxious and as zealous and as completely “sold out” as these people are to one objective: getting rid of one Book. That Book is NOT the RSV or NASV. It is not the Textus Receptus or Nestle’s text. It is NOT the Majority Text or the ASV, and it is NOT the NRSV or the NIV. It is the 1611 product of the English Protestant Refor­mation, the Book that built America and England before they gave it up and consequently deteriorated.

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