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“We teach the student of Greek that the KEYS to understanding anything and everything in the Scripture—both the fundamental truths and the “deeper things”—are a HUMBLE HEART and a BELIEVING MIND.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, How To Teach The Original Greek

“This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.”  ”
― Peter S. Ruckman, The Damnation of a Nation

“Some men, in twenty years, cover the ground that it takes other men fifty and sixty years to cover.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, The Full Cup: A Chronicle of Grace

“No Christian group can improve itself by going one step beyond believing the Bible and teaching it. God has limited His search warrant to “search the scriptures” (John 5:39) and His “study grants” to study-ing “the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15).”
― Peter S. Ruckman, The History of the New Testament Church Volume 1

“In 1991, the editors in The Scientific American were saying that environmental ecology was a MORAL issue. The same editors (with the editors of every major daily newspaper in America, plus CBS, NBC, and ABC) were treating premarital sex, use of drugs, pornography, sex perversion, and fornication as “LIFESTYLES” with no moral overtones. “Good and evil” could only be applied to people who opposed federal control of businesses and property. They were “good” if they submitted to control and “fines,” but they were “evil” if they had any freedom. “Good and evil” are not even talked about in any high school or college in America where they touch adultery, fornication, sex perversion, stealing, cursing, cheating, pornography, or lying. You can’t even post a standard for “good and evil” (the Ten Commandments) in the hallway of a public school. At the same time, you are being taught that it is “EVIL” to put your garbage in the wrong place. What has happened?”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Roots and Methodology

“Romans 9:17: “For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up….” The “scripture” said to Pharaoh? Why, in the book of Exodus there were no Scriptures around when Moses talked with Pharaoh. Moses wrote the book of Exodus after those events took place. The Scripture didn’t say it to Pharaoh. Who said to Pharaoh, “Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee”? Who said that? Why, the Lord said it. Paul is kind of careless, isn’t he? The idea of putting the word “scripture” for the word “God”! Isn’t that kind of careless? Paul must have been a Bibliolater.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, A Survey of the Authorized Version

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, and good will toward men.”   No glory to God, no peace. Got it? Does higher education give the glory to God? Does the news media? Do the doctors and lawyers? Do you? God gave America up to sex perverts (literally: see Rom. 1:26–27) because Americans did not give Him glory (literally: see Rom. 1:21). No glory to God, no peace.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, The Damnation of a Nation

“One day I said, “Paul, what is the greatest truth you ever learned in your years as a pool shark, ‘pitch man,’ and stick man on the midways?” He grinned and said, “Ruckman, I learned that you can’t CON an honest man.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Things I Have Not Learned

“This is the same trouble in marriages. The hardest thing you have to do, as a man, is to keep that strange fascination and infatuation for your wife that you had for her in the days when you began your engagement. And the hardest thing a woman ever has to do is to keep the admiration and respect she had for her husband before he said “I do.” 2:5”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Revelation Commentary

“(If you ever have to toss a coin between Chrysostom and Origen, save yourself the trouble; Chrysostom was a soulwinning, Bible-preaching missionary. Origen was a Platonic Arian who devoted his life to destroying the Textus Receptus.)”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians Commentary

“Judas Iscariot.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Revelation Commentary

“For that reason, we stick to the AV Bible, 1611, taken from the Textus Receptus, which was not written between A.D. 346 and 500, when this seventh head of Satan assumed a religious “holy” form. Bible‑believing Christians go by the Greek Textus Receptus of the Eastern Greek Church—not the Western Roman Church. Bible‑believers go back to the original Christian religion of the Bible‑believing Christianity, which used a Syrian‑type Text from papyrus of the first, second, and third centuries, and preserved these in Byzantine manuscripts of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries, in Asia through Asia Minor, and then through the Balkans to Germany and England.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Revelation Commentary

“DEMONSTRATION. And to this proposition every philosopher since Comte would agree (see pp. 110–115). If there is one thing that all of the philosophers would agree upon when discussing “science,” it would be that the discipline would have to PROVE what it professed to believe.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, The Christian's Handbook of Science and Philosophy

“We now have in one book (the Gospel of John) FOUR references that define what TRUTH is; not one of them match what any child is being taught in any federal school in America or Europe. No. 1. One man is “THE TRUTH” (John 14:6). No. 2. This man was sent here to bear witness to “THE TRUTH.” 3. His Spirit (John 16:13) has the job of guiding and leading men into “ALL TRUTH” (John 16:13). No. 4. The “WORDS” Jesus Christ spoke are “LIFE” and “SPIRIT” (John 6:63) because He was speaking the WORDS of the Author of truth (John 17:17).”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Gospel of John Commentary

“America: “Don’t worry; God never said that or anything like that. That was just Jeremiah back in ‘pre-scientific times’ using hyperbole and figures of speech.” At least that is the news media interpretation of the passage. The news media proved the “apple” in Eden was an “apricot,” Christ wore a Roman Catholic shroud, Eve was a black woman in South Africa named “Lucy,” Hell was a Dark Age figment of the imagination, Christ was a fornicator, Paul was a homosexual, and homosexuals are not to be killed in the Bible (Lev. 19, 20); they are to be given access to your children. That is the news media. That is the news media in 1995.   “Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?”
― Peter S. Ruckman, The Damnation of a Nation

“Revelation 1:18 —Not the “keys of the kingdom of heaven,” as in Matthew 16:19. This One has been through Hell after dying (see Acts 2:27, 31), and He opened and shut those gates as He passed through (see Eph. 4:8–10 and Matt. 12:40).”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Ruckman's Bible References

“also Heb.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Revelation Commentary

“He has his roots in the ground, as”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Revelation Commentary

“Saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.” This is the source of the so-called “sinner’s prayer.” Since it is an Old Testament prayer before the Crucifixion, Christians add: “and save me for Jesus’ sake.” This brings up the question of whether it is necessary to pray to be saved. There is a movement among Bible-believing Christians today that says if you pray to receive Christ, that is a work, and you aren’t saved by works (Eph. 2:8–9; Tit. 3:5). The logical conclusion to such an argument is that if you prayed to get saved, that you are lost and need to be saved (again!). It is the Baptist version of the Brownsville Revival retreaders. It’s propagated by pastors who aren’t seeing many people saved in their churches, so they turn on their congregations and try to reconvert them. In one of these churches over in Milton, the associate pastor (who was the son of the pastor) professed to have gotten saved seven times. That was six times past the first time when he prayed to be saved. And you are going to trust a man with no more assurance or stability than that to lead you to Christ? Now is prayer necessary for salvation? No. You can say a prayer and be no more saved than the Pharisee was when he prayed. The touchstone of the Gospel is not Acts 16:31 or Romans 10:13. It is John 1:12. “But as many as RECEIVED HIM, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” Did you know you can believe on Jesus Christ and still die lost and go to Hell? Simon the sorcerer did; look up Acts 8:13 and READ IT! You can even call on the name of the Lord and be lost. Those exorcists in Acts 19:13–15 did. But you can’t receive Jesus Christ and the free gift of God’s righteousness through Jesus Christ (Rom. 5:15–18) and not be saved. You can believe without receiving, but you can’t receive without believing. The question is not can you be saved by praying, because the Scriptures say you can: “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom. 10:13). That calling involves the mouth (Rom. 10:9–10). You are confessing Jesus Christ with your mouth and believing on Him with your heart. The prayer is expressing the faith of the sinner in Jesus Christ to save him. So the real question is what are you doing when you say the sinner’s prayer? If you are repeating it as a ritual (like they do in Russia and the Ukraine due to the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church), that’s not salvation. If you are relying on the prayer itself to save you, that’s not salvation. But if the sinner prays to receive Christ and express his faith in what Jesus Christ did for him, that will do it. Here’s a sinner who comes to Jesus Christ in sincerity and faith, and prays, “Dear God, I know I’m a sinner, and if you don’t do something for me, I’m headed for Hell. I’ve been told that your Son the Lord Jesus Christ can save me, so I’m going to trust Him right now. I believe He died on the cross to take away my sins and rose again to take me to Heaven. Right now I receive Him the best way I know how. Please save me, Lord Jesus, and help me to know I’m saved.” Do you think the Lord is going to tell that sinner, “No, I can’t save you because you just prayed and prayer is a work”? Do you really think the Lord is going to turn down a sinner who comes to Him like that after He said, “him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37)? From a practical standpoint, it is good for a sinner to pray when he gets saved because it can reinforce the believer’s assurance. The prayer gives him a tangible time to which he can point and say, “That’s the time and place when I trusted Jesus Christ as my Saviour.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Gospel of Luke Commentary

“holy city”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Revelation Commentary

“The Law killed the Christian (Rom. 7:8–9). He was officially declared dead (Eph. 2:1–4). When he accepted Christ, only his spirit revived (Eph. 2:5–6; John 3:5); but his old dead body (Gal. 2:20) went right on moving (Rom. 6:1–9). His soul was cut loose from this flesh (Rom. 7:1–4) to marry Jesus Christ and become one Spirit (1 Cor. 6:17), yet he still drags the corpse with him to a hole in the ground (or the hole in the sky!!). That corpse was nailed to the cross with Jesus Christ and buried with Him (Rom. 6:1–11). The Christian has no hold on the Law, and it has no hold on him (Rom. 7:1–4). The changing of other laws (Rom. 8:2) into laws of a legal nature to bring him back into bondage (Gal. 5:1) are satanic, whether they originated with Alexander Campbell’s “Church of Christ” or the Italian winoe’s “Roman Catholic” Church.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians Commentary

“3. A test doesn’t end until it has accomplished its purpose. If God is testing you in a matter, the testing will end when God’s purpose with you is accomplished and not before.”
― Peter S. Ruckman

“It’s very simple. Wherever you are, bow your head and pray a simple prayer something like this:

“Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner, and unless you save me, I am lost forever. I now come to you, the best way I know how, and ask you to save me. I receive you as my Saviour and trust you to forgive and justify me, and present me without fault before God’s throne in the day of Judgment.”

If you have done this, then you have made the greatest decision of your life.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, The Simplicity of Salvation

“When President Bush tried to put a black man on the Supreme Court (1991), he discovered that the NAACP was not really interested in promoting “Colored People” at all. It was interested in promoting left-wing, radical, black Socialists. Suddenly “color” had very little to do with it. Political stance determined the “evaluation.” The press was not against queers, dopeheads, sex perverts, atheists, and Communists; they were against conservative Americans. Apartheid. Conservative Americans, of any race, have always outnumbered queers, dopeheads, atheists, and sex perverts.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Roots and Methodology

“In my work on The Alexandrian Cult Series, I have quotes from popular and well-known Bible teachers who will tell you that the way to find out what God says is to find out what the “originals” say. That sure leaves some of you who can’t read Hebrew or Greek in a fix, doesn’t it? But don’t worry; if you can’t read Hebrew or Greek, just read the American Standard Version, and you will get as close to what God said as you can get. I would hate to think that the closest I can get to what God said is a version that gets rid of Christ’s Deity from 1 Timothy 3:16 and the Trinity from 1 John 5:7 and the Lord’s virgin birth from Luke 2:33 and the blood atonement from Colossians 1:14 and the infallible proofs of His resurrection from Acts 1:3 . . . , but why go on? The American Standard Version gets rid of 36,000 of God’s words; the New International Version gets rid of 64,000 of them. If that is as close as I can get, “I pray thee have me excused” (cf. Luke 14:18–19).”
― Peter S. Ruckman

“Listen, a saved sinner is a man who has put his faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. But a Christian is a saved sinner who has fallen in love.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Fact, Faith, And Feeling

“Now, nowhere does one find these kind of semantics more confounding and stupefying than when one picks up some peculiar heading in a newspaper which talks about “the Islamic Nation.” Islam is NOT a nation. It has never been a nation. Look it up in a dictionary. You can have Islamic “nations” with State-Churches. In these cases, the nation (or country) is the State (political), and the church is Islam (a religion). So if you taught in the schools anything that Moslems believe, you would be “joining Church and State.” All Islamic nations are Church-States. But if you pray or read the Bible, you wouldn’t be joining anything to anything.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Will The Real "ALLAH" Please Stand Up?

“If you receive Jesus Christ as your Saviour, then you receive perfect righteousness and holiness, so that you can please God and be acceptable in His sight. Any other attempt to gain God’s acceptance will not work. God “now commandeth all men everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30). That means you have to give up your old way of thinking and living and turn to God. The Bible says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom. 10:13). That is the invitation. Neither your church, your baptism, nor your good works can save you; you must trust Jesus Christ alone, by grace through faith (Eph. 2:8–9). It’s very simple. Wherever you are, bow your head and pray a simple prayer something like this:

“Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner, and unless you save me, I am lost forever. I now come to you, the best way I know how, and ask you to save me. I receive you as my Saviour and trust you to forgive me and justify me and present me without fault before God’s throne in the day of judgment.”

If you have done this, then you have made the greatest decision of your life. Don’t be ashamed of this decision. “Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed” (Rom. 10:11). You should find a Bible-believing church and start attending that you may grow (2 Pet. 3:18). Also begin to read your Bible (Authorized King James Version) daily and talk to God in prayer. God has given you a brand new life (2 Cor. 5:17); live it for Him.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, The Restoration of Israel

“What we have here are two words that pop up which, when applied to what the Koran teaches and Moslems believe, don’t really mean anything. The first of these words is “Islam,” which doesn’t mean anything because it can only be applied to a single nation. There is no such thing as “THE Islamic Nation.” There are more than two dozen. “Islam,” in itself, means nothing, because the word itself (meaning “submission” or “obedience”) is applied to a dead sinner who never got out of the grave. You are to obey him.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Why I Am Not A Moslem

“Now if the person needs help praying, offer to have him follow you in prayer, as long as he means business. Again, the prayer is not what saves him; it is trusting Christ, which the prayer represents. Say, “Let’s try this: ‘Our Father which art in heaven’ . . . .” That is the beginning of the so-called “Lord’s prayer” in Matthew 6:9. Of course, the verse isn’t doctrinally given to any Gentile or member of the body of Christ. It is doctrinally to Jews under the law. Nor at that point is God the Father of that person. Don’t worry about any of that. The reason I use that is because most people are familiar with that prayer; it’s a natural opening to the rest of the prayer.

“‘Our Father which art in heaven,’ I don’t want to go to hell when I die . . . .” He’ll go with you that far, or he wouldn’t have talked to you as long as he did. “I know I’m a sinner . . . .” He’ll go that far if you presented the plan of salvation as you should have. “And I believe Jesus Christ died for my sins . . . .” If you presented the gospel correctly, and if the person means business, he will now come all the way through. “I am going to trust you now, Lord Jesus, and receive you as my Saviour. Please have mercy on me and save me and let me know I am saved. For Jesus’ sake, amen.”

Now ask him, “Did you mean that prayer?” “Yes.” “Then let’s try another prayer: ‘Lord, thank you for dying for me. Thank you for suffering for my sins on the cross. Please fill me with the Holy Spirit and give me assurance of salvation. For Jesus’ sake, amen.”
― Peter S. Ruckman, Soulwinning