King James Onlyism versus Scholarship Onlyism

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by  Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

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.
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King James Onlyism
versus
Scholarship Onlyism
BY
PETER S. RUCKMAN
B.A., B.D., M.A., Th.M., Ph.D.
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P.O. Box 7135 Pensacola, FL 32534
Copyright © 1992 by Peter S. Ruckman
All rights reserved
Reprinted 2007
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
The Scripture quotations found herein are from the text
of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.
Any deviations therefrom are not intentional.
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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.