Why I Am Not A Campbellite by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

Author:Dr. Peter S. Ruckman [Ruckman, Dr. Peter S.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: BB Bookstore
Published: 2011-10-12T04:00:00+00:00

The Extreme

Act of Hypocrisy

I, personally, have never been able to tolerate “professionalism” in most anything, before or after my conversion to Christ. By nature, I am a very plain, ordinary, crude, uncultured man: utterly without “couth.” I tell people I am very “class conscious.” I have no class, and everyone is conscious of it. I like to walk, run, and work (and play racquetball) in my bare feet. I enjoy tilling dirt and digging in it with my hands. I split kindling, haul rocks, dig fence post holes, and tote cement blocks around. I like to work in the dirt: real dirt, not the kind of dirt that Homer Smith, Bob Jones III, Shelton Smith, Bobby Scumner, James White, “and the boys” like to roll in (Prov. 26:17). My idea of “comfort” is bare feet, a T-shirt, and a pair of coveralls. I would preach in that outfit “year round” if the saints would let me get away with it; which, they won’t.

There is something about artificiality that I have always abhorred, both as a lost man and as a saved man. “Men” who are not MEN make me sick (homonausea). “Women” who are not WOMEN irritate me. A brand new “Morocco Bound Leather” covered Bible that has had leather sprayed onto glue on a piece of cardboard almost drives me to cursing. Few things are more revolting than “Contemporary” Christian music which is no more “Christian” than a Jazz combo in a cocktail lounge or a Rock concert in a disco. The only thing more repulsive would be anyone of the 200 fake English “Bibles” that have been sold by commercial hucksters since 1880. There is something about some “fop” putting on “airs” trying to impress someone—anyone—that turns my stomach. I suppose the most artificial thing on earth is the queers. Sex perverts are nothing but pretentious actors: they are completely unnatural (Rom. 1:26–27; 2 Tim. 3:3). It is not just their sex perversion that is unnatural: it is their speech, their mannerism, and their religion. They are totally PLASTIC: artificial—unreal.

Now, take any twenty Campbellite elders at random (you take ’em, I don’t want ’em!). Not ONE of them is called to do anything but make an ass out of himself quoting Scripture, and pretending that he knows what he is talking about. Here he is, as you have seen him pictured in the last four chapters, on a radio program (or a pulpit) trying to preach a “plan of salvation” that is a colossal wipe-out. These fakey preachers come in two sizes. About 15% of them learn an evangelistic style and try to get up and really “preach,” although they have no message to give out but repent, believe, confess, and be baptized, and “you might make it” or you might not. They counterfeit Baptist evangelists by copying their speech patterns. But the other 85% simply TALK in a cool, quiet, bland monotone while they are giving you a water birth, no assurance of salvation, no millennial reign of Christ, and everyone working their way to heaven.

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