BBB:The Bible for Today

   "The Bible for Today" is an organization headed up by Donald Waite
of Collingswood, New Jersey. Recently he sponsored a work by Gary
Hudson which bombed out quickly, so now he has undertaken to sponsor a
second work by "Hotdog" Hymers of California called The Ruckman
Conspiracy. Robert Scumner, editor of the "Biblical Muckraker," says
about Hymer's work, "This valuable study is a work of the utmost
importance, since it not only deals with the blessed word of God, but
how that word should be understood in translation...We think most
knowledgable ministers have long been alarmed with what the latter has
been doing in claiming inerrancy for a translation...In this work Dr.
Hymers carefully examines these doctrines, and looks at what may be
their source, demonism...Since so many have been wrapped up in the
bizarre cult-like teachings of Ruckmanism, we are glad for the careful,
factual, information set forth in this volume."

   The book by Hymers is not a study of anything, it is Hymers' theory
that if anybody believes the King James Bible is the scripture ("all
scripture is given by Inspiration of God") and is the absolute and
final authority for the child of God in "all matters of faith and
practice," as an infallible and inerrant Book, that they learn that
from a demon. This now is the position of Robert Sumner, and the
position of Donald Waite. Donald Waite publishes the work, and Sumner
recommends it. Sumner, who is just as mad as the Mad Hatter, says that
"Ruckman teaches his followers to exorcise demons in front of a mirror,
and then jump into bed." The sermon he is referring to is called
"Demons and the Christian." This has been preached in the Landmark
Baptist Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Detroit Baptist Temple in
Detroit, Michigan, and two hundred other independent Baptist churches.
Anybody can get a copy through the bookstore. Ask for the tape called
"Demons and the Christian." It is a standard evangelistic message used
in Bible conferences, and has been preached for more than thirty-five
years. Years ago we mentioned the fact that Donald Waite was an
Alexandrian, and once we pushed him he went the whole way.