BBB:The Gospel Standard Versus Bob Jones Univ.

   Many years ago Perry Rockwood was put off station WMMU at Bob Jones
University because of his statements about the NASV with which the
faculty of BJU was connected. He was sent a letter from Jim Ryerson
with a nice, smooth, treacherous, double-tongued, flim-flammed alibi
for dropping him, which didn't say why it was dropping him. But Perry
knew and published an article about it which he distributed all over
the country. Now we have from the Gospel Standard, Sept. 1989, Perry
Rockwood of Halafax, Canada, still "reading the riot act" to the
Fortress of the Faithless and the Bastion of Babies and telling them,
in no uncertain terms, that their hollering about Ruckman, Ruckmanitus,
Ruckmanism, and Ruckmanites is just a cover-up for blatant infidelity.

   We quote directly from the publication (Vol. 39, no. 3, pages 9-10)
by the late Martyn Lloyd Jones, speaking back in 1967. "Some Bible
students feel the many translations that still come from the press that
`this one makes it clear.' Many things being expressed are worthy of
deep thought, another translation is not the answer. I suppose the most
popular of all the proposals at the present moment is to have a new
translation of the Bible. The argument is that people are not reading
the Bible any longer because they do not understand its language,
particularly the archaic terms . . . There is a danger I see of our
surrendering something that is vital and essential. Take this argument
that the modern man does not understand such terms as justification and
sanctification. I want to ask you a question. When did the ordinary man
ever understand those terms? Did the colliers to whom John Wesley and
George Whitefield preached in the eighteenth century understand? They
had not even been to a day school, they could not read, they could not
write, yet these were the terms that were used. This was the version
that was used, the AV. The common people have never understood these
terms. We are concerned here with something that is spiritual,
something that does not belong to this world at all. Human wisdom is of
no value here. It is spiritual truth. Yet we are told that it must be
put in such simple terms and language that anybody taking it up and
reading it is going to understand all about it. My friends, this is
sheer nonsense. What we must do is to educate the mass of the people up
to the Bible, not bring the Bible down to their level. The common man
is made to stand up to authority, he decides everything, everything has
to be brought down to him. How do we do that with the Word of God? I
say no. What we need, therefore is not to replace the AV. We need
rather to preach and train people up to the standard, the language,
dignity and the glory of the old AV."

   Hymers stands corrected. Hutson stands corrected. Hudson stands
corrected. BBC stands corrected. Robert Scumner stands corrected. Bob
Jones III stands corrected, as well as the whole godless, depraved,
backslidden, carnal, apostate Fundamentalists whom we call "The
Alexandrian Cult." The comment on these comments by Martyn Lloyd Jones
is "how sad it is to see young people's faith in God's Word being
shattered in Bible schools which teach thatm while the Bible is
inspired in the original manuscripts, we have really no inspired Bible
today . . . and that while the King James Bible may be good . . . or
the best other translations are also good . . . How can believers in
the King James Bible support such schools? If you would like more
information for why we accept only the King James Version Bible and
reject all other versions, ask for our five booklets on the
subject--offer 1000." Who is that from? That is from Perry Rockwood. If
you want his address I'll give it to you. That address is, The People's
Gospel Hour, Box 1660, Halafax, Novia Scotia, Canada B3J3A1. That is
the "King James Onlyism" that Bobby Jones III coined to cover up the
dirty rotten sins of his ungodly faculty who have been attacking the
King James Bible in the class and ridiculing Bible believers.