KING JAMES ONLYISM VERSUS SCHOLARSHIP ONLYISM A detailed account of how the minds and ministries of five thousand Bible-believing young men were destroyed in Conservative and Fundamentalist Colleges, Universities and Seminaries between 1880 and 1990. Other Materials Available By Dr. Peter S. Ruckman: * Bible Believer’s Commentary Series * Beginning and Advanced Bible Study Material * In-Depth Apologetics * Numerous Pamphlets on Selected Topics * Variety of Gospel Tracts * Audio Cassettes * Video Cassettes Also Available: * AV 1611 Bibles * Study Helps * Concordances * Biographies * Evangelism Material * Material by Other Authors and Speakers For FREE Current Catalog write: BB BOOKSTORE P.O. Box 7135 Pensacola, FL 32534 (850) 477-8812 King James Onlyism versus Scholarship Onlyism BY PETER S. RUCKMAN B.A., B.D., M.A., Th.M., Ph.D. BB BOOKSTORE P.O. Box 7135 Pensacola, FL 32534 Copyright © 1992 by Peter S. 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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Table of Contents Introduction...........................................................ix “King James Onlyism” versus “Scholarship Onlyism”.................................1 Epilogue................................................................97 Footnotes..........................................................110 INTRODUCTION “King James Onlyism” was a cliche (like “Ruck- manism”) invented by the faculty and staff of the school where I got my M.A. and Ph.D.: Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. After placing a hidden placard on the pulpit of their chapel platform saying, “Use only the King James Version from this pulpit,” and declaring at “The World Congress of Fundamentalism” (1990) that the only English version used there would have to be the King James Version, this desperate bunch of professional deceivers decided that “King James Onlyism” was a deadly heresy that came from a “cult.” Bob Jones Jr. and Bob Jones III (1960-1980) thought it cute to add an “ism” on both the expressions above to scare Bible-believing Christians out of their faith in the Book. Then they would be accused of “following a man” and be identified with a “cult.” Very few Christians stopped to THINK for a moment about the innovative expression, for the only substitute for “King James Onlyism” for an American would be “SCHOLARSHIP ONLYISM.” I mean, a Christian is supposed to have some final authority by which he makes decisions and settles issues. If it was NOT the King James Bible, what would it be? Few American Christians stopped to think about this crucial question; and it was absolutely crucial, for it dealt with FINAL AUTHORITY which, from the dawn of recorded history (Gen. 3), has been THE ISSUE with mankind. To cover up their devilment and their true designs, the apostates offered the Bible-believer a substitute for his Book. They offered him a pile of lost scattered pieces of paper (“original autographs”) written in a dead lan­ guage that he could not understand unless he attended ($$$) a school like theirs ($$$). Thus “SCHOLARSHIP ONLYISM” became his substitute for the Holy Bible— the Authorized Version of the English Protestant Refor­ mation. This threw the hato/final authority into the ring for “grabs,” because scholars vary from demoniac athe­ ists and unsaved agnostics to Roman Catholic monks and Conservative “Evangelicals.” Final authority was reduced, by Bob Jones University, to opinions and pref­ erences, with the arbitrator of conflicting opinions and preferences being the opinions and preferences of the scholars who conflicted with each other. Anarchy. Rela­ tivism; pragmatic humanism. (If you want some “isms,” there they are.) This booklet shows you how the cult of “SCHOL­ ARSHIP ONLYISM” operates (and has operated for one hundred years) in order to destroy the Holy Bible as the final authority in YOUR life. In this book, all of the conservative scholars assume the seat of final authority, and all sit in judgment on the BOOK. This Alexandrian Cult is composedo/“gods” (Gen. 3) who partook of“the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” so they freely question what God said (Gen. 3:1), subtract from what He said (Gen. 3:2), and add to what He said (Gen. 3:3). Their final authority is their own opinion. This shows the FRUITS and RESULTS of this type of “Funny- mentalism.” At the end of the book, “Scholarship Only­ ism” is applied in a real situation, and you see it in actual operation as carried out by a saved “Fundamentalist.” Its fruits are one hundred percent error, while professing to have the ability to find error in ALL translations and ALL Greek texts.