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Vol. 43 No. 1
Bulletin
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 17:17) January 2019
Bad Attitude
Baptist Blowout
— February 14–17 —
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Here I Stand:
A Life of Martin Luther
Roland H. Bainton
Vivid portrait of the man who, because of his
unshakable faith in his God, helped to bring about
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The Sufficiency
Of the Book
By Dr. Peter S. Ruckman “born-again” Christians) rejecting
“Even so every good tree brin- Genesis 1 and observing “Darwin
geth forth good fruit; but a cor- Sunday.” That is why they pander to
rupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. queers and international socialists.
A good tree cannot bring forth That is why people like Rick War-
evil fruit, neither can a corrupt ren, Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Ken-
tree bring forth good fruit” (Matt. neth Copeland, et al., can sucker
7:17–18). professing Christians out of millions
“Either make the tree good, of dollars every year. Christians
and his fruit good; or else make have dumped the Book.
the tree corrupt, and his fruit cor- But the Bible is God’s word and
rupt: for the tree is known by his His words. It’s not just the message
fruit” (Matt. 12:33). or the principles or the thoughts or
After 120 years (since 1880) of the fundamentals that have been
criticizing the scriptures, chang- given to us “by inspiration of
ing the scriptures, retranslating the God” (2 Tim. 3:16); it’s those indi-
scriptures, and revising the scrip- vidual words.
tures, the corrupt tree of apostate “The WORDS of the LORD are
fundamentalism and conservatism pure WORDS . . . Thou shalt keep
in the United States has finally born THEM, O LORD, thou shalt pre-
the rotten fruit it has been nurturing serve THEM from this generation
for years—complete rejection of the for ever” (Psa. 12:6–7).
scriptures as the infallible, inerrant “. . . the WORDS that I speak
word of God. According to one sur- unto you, THEY are spirit, and
vey, 37% of “evangelicals” do not THEY are life” (John 6:63).
believe the Bible is inerrant. No sur- “Heaven and earth shall pass
prise—if you tell your students and away, but my WORDS shall not
congregations long enough that the pass away” (Matt. 24:35).
Bible has mistakes in it (“This is an “For he whom God hath sent
unfortunate translation,” “The old- speaketh the WORDS of God: for
est and best manuscripts omit the God giveth not the Spirit by mea-
verse,” “A better translation should sure unto him” (John 3:34).
be . . . ,” “The Bible should be “He that is of God heareth
viewed in the ‘light’ of modern dis- God’s WORDS: ye therefore hear
coveries in_____” [fill in the blank them not, because ye are not of
with science, psychiatry, archaeol- God” (John 8:47).
ogy or whatever], etc.), and pretty “For I testify unto every man
soon, they will believe you. Like Hit- that heareth the WORDS of the
ler said, if you tell a lie long enough prophecy of this book, If any man
and loud enough, people will come shall add unto these things, God
to believe it’s true. That is why you shall add unto him the plagues
have “evangelicals” (supposedly Continued on 15
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The Sufficiency
Of the Book
Continued from 14 I have never found one mistake in
that are written in this book: And the 788,258 words of that Book (AV
if any man shall take away from 1611), but I have found plenty in
the WORDS of the book of this their critics. I have examined every
prophecy, God shall take away problem the “scholars” have raised
his part out of the book of life, and have never seen one they
and out of the holy city, and from could prove was an error beyond a
the things which are written in reasonable shadow of a doubt. Ev-
this book” (Rev. 22:18–19). ery alleged “contradiction” or “error”
Let me ask you: do you have the critics raised had an explana-
God’s WORDS? You say, “Well, I tion if one believed what the Book
have the Word (or word) of God, said (1 Thess. 2:13), as it said it,
Ruckman.” I didn’t ask you that. in the context in which it was said,
I asked, “Do you have God’s with consideration given to whom
WORDS—plural?” “Well, I have a it was said (2 Tim. 2:15), and com-
translation utilizing ‘dynamic equiv- paring scripture with scripture to let
alence,’ so I have the intent of the the Book define what it said (1 Cor.
author.” So are they God’s WORDS 2:13).
or not? “Well . . , no . . . .” That’s If that Book is God’s words (and
what I thought. there is no doubt in my mind that it
The fundamentalist will say, “We is), then there is no authority on this
have a reliable translation that earth higher than that Book (2 Pet.
upholds every major doctrine of 1:19–21). You say, “Jesus Christ
the Christian faith.” So is it God’s is a higher authority.” Even if that
WORDS? “No, but it is as close as were so, Jesus Christ is not here on
we can get.” How close would that earth right now to consult. He will be
be, Doctor? “Oh, about 500 (New someday in His millennial kingdom,
Scofield Reference Bible) to 36,000 but that is not now. Right now, the
(NASV) words different (or com- authority for the Christian is God’s
pletely missing!) from the transla- words in God’s Book. You wouldn’t
tion we ‘historic fundamentalists’ know who Jesus Christ was or what
want to be identified with, but which He did for you if it weren’t for the
we reserve the right to correct at words of that Book (John 5:39;
our own discretion whenever we Rom. 10:8–17). God Almighty has
can’t understand it or don’t like what magnified the words in that Book
it says.” I see. By the way, wouldn’t (Psa. 138:2, 4) over even the name
that make you God, since you de- of His own Son (Phil. 2:9–11). A
cide what He did and did not say? Christian who rejects the inerrancy
Now if you don’t have God’s and infallibility of the holy scriptures
words, I do. I have them in my own has no authority higher than his
language—English. After 63 years own sinful, worldly opinions, or the
of studying them and their critics, Continued on 19
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The Sufficiency
Of the Book
Continued from 15 with whatever he needs to make it
opinions of a sinner and a worldling through this life to glory.
just like himself. 1. That Book holds the universe
Now there is a doctrine that goes together (Heb. 11:3, 1:3). Tell that
hand in hand with the absolute au- to the professors at the Massachu-
thority of the scripture: it is the doc- setts Institute of Technology!
trine of the sufficiency of scripture. 2. The Book is absolute truth
If the Bible is the final authority in (John 17:17; Psa. 119:151: 2 Tim.
all matters of faith and practice (and 2:15). It’s not just “What’s true for
there is no doubt in my mind that it you but may not be true for me.”
is), then it must contain everything When a person rejects what the
the believer needs to believe right Book says, he opens himself up
(faith) and act right (practice). That to believing a lie and damnation (2
is the sufficiency of scripture. No Thess. 2:11–12).
pope, bishop, pastor, priest, rabbi, 3. The Book can enlighten you
imam, president, senator, con- (Psa. 119:99, 105, 130). Intellectual
gressman, college professor, Bible and spiritual enlightenment doesn’t
scholar, or translator has any contri- come by rejecting the words of the
bution to add in those matters. The Bible as the English deists, the
only “help” a Christian can get is French skeptics, and the German
from someone who first believes the rationalists taught in the “Age of
Book and then faithfully proclaims, Enlightenment.” Beccaria, Diderot,
preaches, teaches, expounds, or ex- Hume, Kant, Descartes, Rousseau,
plains the WORDS found in the text. and Voltaire were just one more col-
The moment one corrects, changes, lection of the blind leading the blind
or revises the WORDS, the mo- into a ditch (2 Cor. 4:4; Matt. 16:14).
ment he rejects those WORDS and 4. The Book can judge between
substitutes the opinions of men for motives and analyze thought pat-
them, you can take those comments terns (Heb. 4:12–13; Jer. 6:19;
and deposit them in “file 13.” They Ezek. 11:5, 33:30–33). It is the only
are no more pertinent to the author- book out of the 23 million in the Li-
ity or sufficiency of scripture than a brary of Congress that will read you
goose in a horse race. before you read it.
Here, then, is a list of things 5. It can judge all false teachers,
from the scripture that testify to all false prophets, and all false reli-
their own sufficiency. This is what gious leaders, and correct all their
the Book (the Authorized Version false doctrines and practices (Isa.
of the Protestant Reformation) has 5:20, 8:20; Jer. 8:9; Matt. 22:29;
to say about itself in this regard. It Mark 7:7–9). That goes for your
is by no means a complete list, but priest, your bishop, your pope, your
it will show the Bible believer that elder, your “apostle,” your “women’s
the Book is sufficient to supply him Continued on 20
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The Sufficiency
Of the Book
Continued from 19 secution, sickness, bereavement,
speaker,” and any “televangelist” on and poverty; and what you should
the boob tube. do while here on this earth besides
6. It can draw absolute judgment feeding your face, staying as com-
against anything that any man, na- fortable as you possibly can, and
tion, or group proposes (Isa. 5:20, raising your family. And here the
8:20, 30:8–13; Jer. 36:2, 25:13; “proof texts” would be too numerous
Gen. 18:25; Psa. 119:137–138; to list. Two books of the Bible alone
Rom. 9:4). (Psalms and Proverbs) would cover
7. It can correct all Greek and over half the list; to those you could
Hebrew scholars, all Bible transla- add Galatians 4–6; Ephesians 4–6;
tors, all Bible revisers, all commen- Philippians 4; Colossians 2–4; 1
tators, and all expositors (2 Cor. Timothy 2–6; and 1 Peter 3–5. That
2:17; Rom. 1:18, 25; 2 Tim. 1:13; would be a partial list. The Book
Jer. 8:8, 23:36; Isa. 29:11–14; Matt. gives patience; it gives comfort; it
22:29). gives hope (Rom. 15:4).
8. It is any piece of equipment The Book can tell you how to
the believer needs to survive and have eternal life as a present pos-
thrive spiritually in a hostile world. session (John 5:39, 6:68; 1 John
It is a sword (Heb. 4:12; Eph. 6:17), 5:13). It can save your soul (James
a hammer (Jer. 23:29), nails (Eccl. 1:21). It can impart the new birth (1
12:11), fire (Jer. 23:29, 5:14, 20:9; Pet. 1:23). It can help you grow as a
Luke 24:32), a mirror (James 1:22– believer (1 Pet. 2:2). It can build you
25), a lamp (Psa. 119:105), and a up (Acts 20:32). It can strengthen
goad (Eccl. 12:11). you (Psa. 119:28). It can cleanse
9. It is a complete diet to nourish you (Psa. 119:9; John 15:3). It can
the new man in Christ (Job 28:12). sanctify you (John 17:17). It can
It is water (Eph. 5:26), milk (1 Pet. preserve you forever (1 Pet. 1:24–
2:2), bread (Matt. 4:4), honey (Psa. 25).
19:10, 119:103), apples (Prov. You don’t know another book
25:11), and meat (Heb. 5:12–14). in the world that can do all those
10. The Book contains anything things for you. They all fall short
and everything you need to know (Isa. 55:8–9). The Koran does not
about “life and godliness” (2 Pet. contain everything Allah wants you
1:3). It will tell you how to live life to know; that’s why Moslems have
down here; how to make a living; to add the Hadith and the Sunna
what to do with your income and to it. The Book of Mormon, Doc-
outgo; how to handle health, family, trine and Covenants, and the Pearl
social, economic, religious, and ed- of Great Price alongside the King
ucational problems; how to respond James Bible are nothing but a sad,
to both fair and foul treatment; how tragic joke. Mary Baker Eddy’s Key
to get through sorrows, famine, per- Continued on 21
BIBLE BELIEVERS’ BULLETIN January 2019 Page 21
The Sufficiency
Of the Book
Continued from 20 “prophet” and “perfect example.”
to the Scriptures isn’t a question of Look at how the nations where Ro-
“mind over matter”; it’s “What’s the man Catholicism is the dominant
matter with your mind?” if you take religion keeps the people in a third-
it seriously. Adding the teachings world status or in states of political
of Charles Taze Russell or Ellen G. chaos. Look at nations that follow
White to the holy scriptures is like Hinduism, Buddhism, animism, and
filling a grand prix race car with ce- voodoo. Those countries have the
ment in order to make it go faster. most diseased, ignorant, starving
The Catholic doctrine that the Bi- populations in the world. Look at
ble alone is not sufficient is only the atheistic nations like Russia, China,
gaseous belchings of blaspheming and North Korea where the whole
fools (popes, cardinals, archbish- populous are little more than slaves
ops, bishops, and priests). There to the government.
is nothing in the Apocrypha or the The one thing all those nations
catechism or the missal or the have in common, whether they are
church fathers or tradition or papal Moslem, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist,
bulls or infallible decrees that add animist, or atheist, is none of them
any truth or help for the sinner to believe in the sufficiency of scrip-
what is found in the Holy Bible. All ture. They might add the Koran or
those things do is make “the word church tradition or the Vedas or the
of God of none effect” (Mark 7:13) Noble Eightfold Path or the Analects
and accomplish nothing spiritually of Confucius or Mao’s “Red Book”
for Roman Catholics who believe or the writings of Marx and Engels,
what their church teaches. but every one of them, without one
If you want to see what happens exception, will follow something
to a nation or people that don’t think other than the Holy Bible because
the Book is sufficient, check out the they don’t believe the scriptures are
condition of countries that follow the adequate to address all the issues
Koran: they are stuck back in sev- of life now or in the future.
enth-century Arabia with a prophet We Bible-believing Christians be-
who was an adulterer and a child lieve one Book has it all. The Book
molester, who called epileptic sei- will prove itself to anyone who takes
zures “receiving revelation from ‘the that position.
god,’” who recommended camel “All scripture is given by inspi-
urine as medicine, who thought hell ration of God, and is profitable for
was populated mainly by women, doctrine, for reproof, for correc-
who would have anyone who made tion, for instruction in righteous-
fun of him murdered in the most ness: That the man of God may
horrendous ways possible, and who be PERFECT, THROUGHLY FUR-
had absolutely no assurance of sal- NISHED unto ALL good works” (2
vation even though he was Allah’s Tim. 3:16–17).
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THE CREED OF
THE ALEXANDRIAN CULT
1. There is no final authority but God.
2. Since God is a Spirit, there is no final authority that can be seen, heard, read,
felt, or handled.
3. Since all books are material, there is no book on this earth that is the final
and absolute authority on what is right and what is wrong, what constitutes truth and
what constitutes error.
4. There WAS a series of writings one time which, IF they had all been put into a
BOOK as soon as they were written the first time, WOULD HAVE constituted an infal-
lible and final authority by which to judge truth and error.
5. However, this series of writings was lost, and the God who inspired them was
unable to preserve their content through Bible-believing Christians at Antioch
(Syria), where the first Bible teachers were (Acts 13:1), and where the first missionary
trip originated (Acts 13:1-52), and where the word “Christian” originated (Acts 11:26).
6. So God chose to ALMOST preserve them through Gnostics and philosophers
from Alexandria, Egypt, even though God called His Son OUT of Egypt (Matthew 2),
Jacob OUT of Egypt (Genesis 49), Israel OUT of Egypt (Exodus 15), and Joseph’s
bones OUT of Egypt (Exodus 13).
7. So there are two streams of Bibles. The most accurate—though, of course, there
is no final, absolute authority for determining truth and error; it is a matter of “pref-
erence”—are the Egyptian translations from Alexandria, Egypt, which are “almost the
originals,” although not quite.
8. The most inaccurate translations were those that brought about the German
Reformation (Luther, Zwingli, Boehler, Zinzendorf, Spener, et al.) and the worldwide
missionary movement of the English-speaking people: the Bible that Sunday, Torrey,
Moody, Finney, Spurgeon, Whitefield, Wesley, and Chapman used.
9. But we can “tolerate” these if those who believe in them will “tolerate” US. After
all, since there is NO ABSOLUTE AND FINAL AUTHORITY that anyone can read,
teach, preach, or handle, the whole thing is a matter of “PREFERENCE.” You may
prefer what you prefer, and we will prefer what we prefer. Let us live in peace, and if we
cannot agree on anything or everything, let us all agree on one thing: THERE IS NO
FINAL, ABSOLUTE, WRITTEN AUTHORITY OF GOD ANYWHERE ON THIS EARTH.
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