{"id":1937,"date":"2018-05-06T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2018-05-06T02:00:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T02:00:21","slug":"what-is-ruckmanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"What is Ruckmanism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Is Ruckmanism?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>By John P. McGraw, M.A.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ruckmanism:\u00a0 An obscure heresy mainly contained to southeastern United States and several midwestern states.\u00a0 This heresy gets its name from Dr. Peter Sturges Ruckman (Ph.D., religious history) who has founded his theology on extreme antinomianism (the possibility of inner salvation without outward, visible holiness), a dedication to Bibliolotry, and many radical interpretations of the Bible.\u00a0 Devotees of this heresy will stand for the most extreme interpretations of controversial subjects if they come from their leader, but under no circumstances will they stand for a critique of the underlying foundations of the heresy itself.\u00a0 Among other heresies Ruckman teaches divorce and remarriage of Christians as Christian institutions.\u00a0 Ruckman contends that all those partaking in physical union (\u201cflesh joined to flesh\u201d as he calls it) have been married, though maybe their marriage is not recognized in the eyes of man.\u00a0 This of course is polygamy in a twisted form.\u00a0 The clear teaching of the New Testament is that marriage is (1) a ceremony, John 2:1-10, (2) a spiritual union, Ephesians 5, and (3) a physical union, Hebrews 13:4.\u00a0 Also the New Testament speaks of the marriage of Jesus to the church, certainly something other than \u201cflesh joined to flesh\u201d.\u00a0 This aspect of ruckmanism is similar to early Mormonism which contended that indeed marriage is polygamous, and was even partaken in by Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Though maintaining an orthodox pretense in the Baptist tradition, ruckmanism is clearly outside the tradition of both historic and Biblical Christianity.\u00a0 Another aspect of ruckmanism is the concept that restricts the deity of Christ to Jesus being the manifestation of God in the flesh and not actually God, in that Christ the man was capable of sin and could have fallen.\u00a0 Should Christ have sinned the universe it is surmised, might have exploded.\u00a0 It is felt that were Jesus above the capacity to sin, His testing on the earth would have been a hoax.\u00a0 This of course is a denial of the Godness of Christ just as so called Apostolic (Jesus Only) doctrine is a denial of His humanity.\u00a0 The fact is that there was no possibility of Jesus falling for He was truly God.\u00a0 His testing is a willing one to reconcile man to Himself, not of any necessity whatsoever to the blessed Trinity.\u00a0 Other aspects of ruckmanism are: the English King James Version of the Bible is superior to the original Greek manuscripts, the antichrist may land in a spaceship in the Vatican, there are no women in heaven (all resurrected saints will receive bodies identical to the resurrected body of Jesus), and a vicious badgering and name calling of those who do not submit to Ruckman\u2019s authority.\u00a0 Another interesting innovation is that Judas Iscariot was not human, even though the New Testament shows Judas betraying human emotions, repentance and suicide.\u00a0 Ruckman takes Christ\u2019s statement, \u201cone of you is a devil\u201d to mean that Judas was not human.\u00a0 Of course Jesus no more meant that Judas was not human than He meant that the Pharisees were not human when He called them serpents and children of vipers.\u00a0 Interestingly enough Ruckman\u2019s teachings on the non-humaness of Judas is a denial of the traditional and Biblical teaching of the antichrist, whom Ruckman thinks Judas was and is and will be.\u00a0 For the Pauline teaching on the antichrist is that indeed the antichrist is human, specifically the \u201cman of sin.\u201d (2 Thessalonians 2:2)\u00a0 In that the distinct element of this teaching revolves around a man, ruckmanism can be accurately described as a cult.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Is Ruckmanism?\u00a0\u00a0By John P. McGraw, M.A. Ruckmanism:\u00a0 An obscure heresy mainly contained to southeastern United States and several midwestern states.\u00a0 This heresy gets its name from Dr. Peter Sturges Ruckman (Ph.D., religious history) who has founded his theology on extreme antinomianism (the possibility of inner salvation without outward, visible holiness), a dedication to Bibliolotry, … Continue reading What is Ruckmanism?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}