To those who call anyone who agrees with any of Ruckman's doctrinal positions a "Ruckmanite", or in a "cult",
count the names in this quote:
"The people of that church introduced me to the
Scofield Reference Bible. One man gave me a book I still treasure, Dispensational Truth by
Clarence Larkin. (Only the Lord knows how many nights I gave up sleep to pour over those charts!)... I would spend every spare dollar collecting the works of
A. C. Gaebelein,
August Van Ryn,
Graham Scroggie, and others... pointed out those parts of God s word specifically for the Jew, the Gentile, and the Church of God, and highlighted minute but meaningful differences between the four Gospels, time periods in Acts, and the kingdom age set against eternity. All of these men placed the focus of their dispensational studies on the person of the Lord Jesus Christ showing what He had done, was doing, and will yet do from age to age. He was truly given all the glory. Later, I would be introduced to the works of
Peter Ruckman,
Greg Estep, and others who drew sharper lines of distinction, then to
Cornelius Stam,
J. C. O hair,
Dave Reese, and others who taught to varying degrees and with skillful persuasion that the Bible was not only to be divided but that it consisted of parts so different that there were great impassable gulfs between Paul and Peter, one portion of Acts and another, and, in fact, ways for men to gain eternal life apart from the sacrifice of Christ at Calvary. My searching into these matters reached its depths when I plowed my way through every note and cross reference in The Companion Bible and as I read with a mixture of wonder and concern through all the other works of
E. W. Bullinger. For good measure, I found relief in the excellent work Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth by
Harry Ironside. Let me say that I thank God for every one of these men
and the hundreds of other authors and preachers not mentioned, for their study and teaching. I am truly appreciative for each bit of truth they passed from their hearts and minds to mine." -
James Knox, Forward for
One Book Rightly Divided by
Douglas D. Stauffer
Alert the cult of anti-cult, we have a ScoLarkGaebeleinRynScrogEstepStamHairReeseBullingerIronStaufferRuckmanite on our hands.
Now try and tell us all the Bible says you can only have 1 teacher total, too. Good luck with that "ite" business.
