Since Mr. UGC referenced David Cloud in his latest post, let's see what Cloud had to say about Ruckman (published in 2010):
"There are a large number of independent Baptist churches that are a great blessing to this dark world, but the fact remains that some of them are cultic. And one of those is Bible Baptist Church of Pensacola, Florida, founded by Peter Ruckman. This twice-divorced, thrice-married pastor exalts the King James Bible as 'advanced revelation' superior to the Greek and Hebrew from which it was translated. He claims that God shut the door of revelation in 1611 ('The Monarch of the Books,' p. 9). In the books 'The Salient Verses' and 'The Unknown Bible,' Ruckman clams to have discovered hundreds of advanced revelations in the Bible that no other man has found. He says on page 347 of 'The Unknown Bible,' 'Do you realize that in these last 2 chapters, you have learned a dozen things that were unknown to the greatest Bible teachers in the world?'
"These new revelations include the idea that angels are 33-year-old males, that all believing women will receive 33-year-old male bodies at the Rapture, that when the believer is born again his soul is literally cut loose from the inside of his fleshly body, that demons are winged creatures ranging in size from that of flies to eagles, and that the soul is an invisible bodily shape. In his tract 'Millions Disappear: Fact or Fiction' Ruckman claims that men were saved in different ways in different ages, by faith plus works in the Old Testament and in the Tribulation and by works alone in the Millennium. Ruckman describes his belief in space aliens. He suggests that some of the medieval plagues in Europe were caused by UFOs, that a B-52 bomber was downed by a UFO and that aliens disemboweled the crew members, that a crew member of a US Navy ship was transported into the future, that the CIA operates underground alien breeding facilities (p 256), that there are web footed aliens, blue aliens with green blood (p. 244), grey aliens with clear blood (pp. 310-11), and that Adam originally had water in his veins instead of blood (p. 185) We aren't sure what is in the veins of Peter Ruckman."
We are supposed to embrace Ruckman as the greatest, most brilliant theologian and thinker of our times, but in my opinion he shot himself in the foot and destroyed his own credibility by making all these wacko speculations and also by predicting the Rapture in 1989, which didn't happen. Sorry, but I already joined the Ruckman cult once and I won't make that mistake again. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." The Ruckman cultists are Hitler-style bullies and control freaks. They want to run your whole life. They are the types who claim the power to order other men's wives and daughters to not wear slacks, as if it was any of their business, and to tell your children where they can or cannot go to school. They demand "complete submission" and if they don't get it, they throw tantrums. No matter how loyal you are or how much money you give or how many tracts you pass out, it will never be enough and you will be condemned and thrown under the bus sooner or later (probably sooner). I found out all this the hard way, through first-hand experience. If you ever find yourself in a church or any kind of Bible study where Ruckman is being referenced in a favorable manner, then run, don't walk, for the nearest exit. Or stay and let yourself be used and abused by tyrannical bullies - it's your call.
Here's hoping Mr. UGC sees this before he leaves the forum forever. "Aw reservoir." (That's French for Good-bye).