God Wrote Only One Bible - This Book Endorses Lexicons!

[illinoisguy]

I was curious to see if the book "God Wrote Only One Bible" by Jasper James Ray, published in 1955 and again in 1980, was still available.  This book has been endorsed and promoted by Ruckmanites over the years.  It turns out that Amazon is offering one new copy for $16.95, and they have 16 reviews of the book.  Also, to my surprise, the Bible Baptist Bookstore (run by Peter Ruckman's Bible Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida) is selling it for $12.95.  The reason I was surprised by this is because the book contradicts some sacred Ruckman dogmas.

On page 101-102, Ray says, "Everyone should know that the King James Version of the Bible is a translation, and not the original words given by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.  There are a few mis-translations in the King James English."

On page 111 Ray says, "Greek reveals more than English.  How to find the meaning of Greek.  First learn the Greek alphabet given below.  Then find the root word in Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon, and in English you can easily read the fuller meaning of any Greek word in the Textus Receptus."  Now that's funny - didn't Ruckman and Riplinger teach that lexicons were of the devil and that we should avoid them like the plague?  Also, Ruckmanites teach that we should not study Greek - all we need is the English words from the good old AV 1611.  Can anyone explain why Peter Ruckman's church is peddling this book that contradicts just about everything that Peter the Great stood for?

 

[Ransom]

My experience with KJV-onlyists is that even one person will present contradictory arguments as long as they both (individually) supposedly support KJV-onlyism.

For example, in his crockumentary New World Order Bible Versions, Spamderson argues both that the NIV denies the virgin birth and supports the Catholic dogma of Mary's perpetual virginity. Either one alone, if true (which neither is, so he's a liar on top of it), would be bad. But they can't both be true. He doesn't notice, and probably woudln't care if a "Bible corrector" pointed out the obvious contradiction.

The monkey-boys are basically attempting proof by flinging poo at the wall and hoping some of it sticks.

 

[robycop3]

  Never mind that Ray heavily, but legally plagiarized heavily from 7TH DAY ADVENTIST Dr. Ben Wilkinson's 1930 book, Our Authorized Bible Vindicated, the "foundation book" of the current KJVO myth.

 

[illinoisguy]

Yes, no doubt about it, Ben Wilkinson's "Our Authorized Bible Vindicated" was one of the main sources of the KJVO error.  This article from ruckmanism.org shows that Wilkinson did not take it to the extremes that Ruckman and Riplinger did.  Wilkinson said there has not been any translation directly inspired by God, he described the AV as being "very seldom materially wrong" and he denied believing that the AV is inerrant and perfect.  By Ruckmanite standards, Wilkinson was a card-carrying member of the "Alexandrian Cult."

www.ruckmanism.org/firstinfluence            (scroll down to year 1930)

 

[robycop3]

  Wilkinson wrote his book in response to a squabble within his SDA cult. He was not trying to start a new doctrine.  When the squabble was settled, he lost interest in that book. (BTW, he couldn't get a US copyright for it. Thus, J. J. Ray was able to freely plagiarize legally from it, and Dr. W didn't protest.)

  While the KJVO myth existed before 1930, it took Dr. W's book to put all its lies and incorrect info into one book, & Ray's, & later, Fuller's use of modern media to hawk their wares & establish the current edition of the KJVO myth in the process.

The whole KJVO myth is phony as a Ford Corvette.