21 Facts About Peter Ruckman

Peter Sturges Ruckman was an American Independent Baptist pastor, author, Bible teacher, and founder of the Pensacola Bible Institute in Pensacola, Florida.

Peter Ruckman was raised in Topeka, Kansas, attended Kansas State University, and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Alabama.

Peter Ruckman entered the US Army in 1944 as a second lieutenant and volunteered to serve with the occupation forces in Japan.

Peter Ruckman returned to the United States "uneasy, unsettled, full of demons".

Peter Ruckman worked as a disc jockey and radio announcer by day and a drummer in various bands by night.

On March 14,1949, Ruckman received Jesus Christ after talking with evangelist Hugh F Pyle in the studios of WEAR radio in Pensacola.

Peter Ruckman attended Bob Jones University, where he received a master's degree and Ph.

Peter Ruckman was the pastor of Bible Baptist Church in Pensacola, and his writings and recorded sermons were published by his Bible Baptist Bookstore.

In 1965, Peter Ruckman founded Pensacola Bible Institute, in part because of disagreements with other institutions with regard to Biblical translations.

Peter Ruckman continued teaching a Sunday school class and participating in other church-related activities until April 2015, when he retired at 93.

Peter Ruckman married three times, the first two marriages ending in divorce.

Peter Ruckman believed that any edition of the Bible not based on the text of the KJV was heretical and could lead one to lose not only their "testimony [and] ministry" but even their life.

Peter Ruckman distinguished between the Textus Receptus of the KJV, and the numerically fewer manuscripts of the Alexandrian text-type underlying most modern New Testament versions.

Peter Ruckman characterized those who endorsed the latter as members of the "Alexandrian Cult," people who believe that while the autographs were God-inspired, they have been lost, and that therefore there is "no final, absolute written authority of God anywhere on this earth".

Peter Ruckman wrote that the Septuagint was a hoax perpetrated by the "Alexandrian cult" under the leadership of the Church Father Origen in the 3rd century AD in order to subvert belief in the integrity of the Bible.

Peter Ruckman argued that the Trinity is typified in creation and within human nature itself.

Peter Ruckman argued that the soul typified the Father, the body the Son, and the Holy Spirit the spirit.

Peter Ruckman argued that the Trinity was typified by nature itself, for instance as water that can exist as ice, steam, or liquid, yet remain one substance.

Peter Ruckman rejected the language of begetting, such as in Psalm 2:7, to mean the eternal origin of the Son of God; he rather interpreted it to mean the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

Peter Ruckman defended the doctrine of eternal security and believed that even if a believer apostatized, he would be saved, though he would lose his rewards.

Peter Ruckman once said that he would have joined the Ku Klux Klan had they not been anti-Semitic, because he agreed with "everything else they say".