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KJB:Where is "the Greek Text"  by Peter Ruckman

   If there is one "heresy" that "Ruckman" teaches that really strikes
an Alexandrian as "blasphemy," it is the homely and perfectly apparent
truth that you can use the Authorized English Version to alter "the
Greek text," often miscalled "THE ORIGINAL GREEK TEXT" by apostate
Fundamentalists who worship scholarship. This confusion of terms was
purposely propagated (and originated) by Christian educators for one
hundred years (see "The Professional Liars" in The Christian's Handbook
of Biblical Scholarship) to create the illusion that scholars have
access to the ORIGINALS, while a layman does not. This Nicolaitan
procedure is still carried out and going on in every classroom of every
Christian col!ege and university in America. Bob Jones III still talks
about "THE GREEK TEXT," and so do Curtis Hutson and every Bible
rejecting Fundamentalist in the Cult.

   We all know there is no such thing as "THE GREEK TEXT." There never
has been. When John wrote his original "Greek text" (90 A.D.) there
wasn't one Greek text on earth that contained Paul's original of 1
Thessalonians or Galatians, and if there was it wasn't in any book
containing "THE GREEK TEXTS" of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Peter. "THE
GREEK TEXT," like Santa Claus and the Big Bad Wolf, is stuck in the
chimney. There are about thirty Greek texts: Mill, Walton, Fell,
Tischendorf, Griesbach, Semler, Hug, Lachmann, Nestle, Aland, Metzger,
Erasmus, Colinaeus, Elzevir, Alford, Souter, Beza, etc.). But the term
is a "historic position" because it suggests, without SAYING it, that
the ONE ("THE") true Greek text is in the hands of a depraved Bible
critic who is altering your King James Bible. There are no exceptions
to this rule: not one.

   This explains why people like Kutilek, Hymers, Hudson, Hobbs,
Horton, Hindson, et al., have such a fit when you suggest that an
uneducated man CAN correct "the Greek" with the English. Their sudden
blaze of self-righteous, holy indignation and Fundamentalist zeal to
protect "the original languages" appears to be sound Christian
reasoning. The lie has been so firmly implanted in the minds of the
laymen that they are simply carried away with the "logic" of it when
the apostate roars, "Blasphemy! Who ever heard of such a thing? Who
before Ruckman believed such a thing?" "Heresy! Why, think of
correcting the God-given language of the Holy Spirit with a
translation!" "Catholicism! This is what Rome did by using the Latin
instead of going to THE ORIGINAL GREEK!" Und so weiter.

   Sounds good, doesn't it? Looks good on paper, doesn't it? Yes, it
looks so "godly" and "historical" and "fundamental" that these days
Bible believers, when faced with the issue--FINAL AUTHORITY--sometimes
quail and withdraw and say, "Well, I believe the Book, BUT l'M NO A
RUCKMANITE!" Get that! The term has now been narrowed down, after
pretending that it just meant believing the Book (which it did also),
to the only real "heresy" the apostate could find; Ruckman teaches the
AV text is superior to "THE ORIGINAL GREEK"--i.e., a series of
published Greek New Testaments which give the reader a DEAD LANGUAGE
that is no longer in use by ninety-nine percent of the world's
population.

   If you will "put your ears on" (CB, c. 1975), I'll show you
something. I will show you (and I will demonstrate it, not "claim" it,
or "teach" it) that every one of these backslidden, Iying hypocrites is
IRRATIONAL, INCONSISTENT AND INSINCERE, and what happened to be a
perfectly logical reaction of holy indignation to a "heresy" was
nothing but the temperamental tantrums of a child about to get caught
in the act of STEALING some cookies out of the cookie jar.

   Witness and note here, cases where any uneducated member of the
Salvation Army in 1890 could have corrected the published Greek texts
of Westcott, Hort, Tischendorf, Nestle, and Griesbach without batting
an eye. He should have corrected them with this ENGLISH BIBLE, and
further, if he did not, he sinned against the Holy Spirit, for eighty
years later Nestle altered these "original Greek texts" to match the
text of the King James 1611 English Authorized Version.

   A. Luke 24:51,52. If you were stupid enough to go to the "original
Greek" as your highest and final authority, your last court of appeals,
you not only would have denied the Deity of Christ and His literal
ascension, you would have had to renege on your own authority, deny it,
and reverse field and come back to the English. This is what the head
of the Bible department at BJU did. After claiming that he had an
inerrant and infallible GREEK text in his hands which he read "every
day" and said that he would defend "every word of it," he had to go
back in 1981 and DENY "the Greek text" because it had not lined up with
the King James Bible printed 270 years before Nestle wrote a sentence.

   Go on, shoot your stupid mouth off; "cut the fool." Bray like a
jackass or roar like a lion. I gave you a documented fact that could be
proved in court with print on paper. Custer had to correct his
"infallible Greek text" with the King James text; he just did it in
1981, where anyone with any sense would have corrected "the Greek text"
in 1890, and again in 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950,
1960, or 1970. Custer was just slow and stupid, like the faculty and
staff of PCS, BBC, Tennessee Temple and Liberty University. A butterfly
could kick them in the head and knock their brains out.

   B. In Acts 8:33 "the Greek text" (Nestle) read `en te tapeinosei he
keirantos' for eighty years. Any Bible believer with a King James Bible
would have corrected this Greek text IMMEDIATELY; he certainly would
not have waited eighty years for some jackass to get into the harness.
The AV says, "IN HIS HUMILIATION," but "the Greek text" had no "HIS" in
it (autou) for eighty years. It was reinserted in 1981. Who were the
fools who went by "historic positions" with the WRONG READING and then
had to line it up with the King James eighty years later because they
had goofed? Philip Schaff, Green, Torrey, Broadus, Robertson, Wuest,
Machen, and the faculty and staff of every school stupid enough to
believe in DUAL AUTHORITIES.

   C. Mark 1:2. This gross error still remains in "the Greek text" (to
cite Custer, Neal, and Zodhiates). We correct it with the English,
naturally. "The Greek" says that the prophet Isaiah spoke Malachi 3:1.
He did not. Malachi spoke it. In the margin of Nestle's you are told
that Malachi spoke it. In the "original Greek text" you are told he did
not. The author of this gross lie was Adamantius Origen (Commentary on
St. John's Gospel; cited by Burgon, Causes of Corruption in the
Traditional Text, p. 284). Fortunately, about forty million or more
Americans and Englishmen had a King James Bible with which to correct
Origen (200 A.D.), Ireneaus (220 A.D.), Augustine, Nestle, Westcott and
Hort, the NIV, the NASV, Griesbach, Wuest, the ASV, the RV, and ANY
Greek text that matched any of them. The "heretic" in 1890 was the
Fundamentalist who went to "the Greek" as the "final court of appeals"
and made a liar out of the Holy Spirit.

   That is what an Alexandrian calls "BLASPHEMY" when he is faced with
the truth. Alexandrians cannot deal with truth; it is outside their
ball park.

   Turn the card over. Here is a modern apostate like Donald Waite,
Curtis Hutson, Hymers, Hudson, Hindson, Hobbs, Horton, or Huckleberry
Hound, who swears by the "Majority" text or the TR as the "final court
of appeals." Along with dead orthodox apostates like Melton, Walker,
Kutilek, Scumner, Dell, Sherman, Combs, and Farstad, he says, "Oh well!
When WE said `the Greek text' we weren't referring to the Alexandrian
Greek texts that produced the Bible recommended at BJU (the ASV and
NASV): we mean "the Received Text." You did? Wanna bet a thousand bucks
like Hot Dog Hymers did in California and blew his credibility to
smithereens?

   Careful, stupid, you are liable to get someone killed.

   Before springing the X-ambush, let me call your attention to two
"historic positions" for a child of God that take precedence over all
scholarly mouthings about "original autographs" and "plenary, verbally
inspired nothings" that don't exist. Two forgotten items: SINCERITY and
CONSISTENCY.

   This means, one: a final absolute authority by which to judge all
"relative truths" and a constant resorting to that final authority when
trying to settle issues, disputes, or arguments. This is called
"consistency." No Alexandrian is consistent. He has multiple
authorities available to prove anything he wants to prove, according to
the lusts or inclinations of his own FLESH (Prov. 18:1-4).

   SINCERITY: this means that when the Christian cites final authority
to settle a matter that he actually BELIEVES what he is quoting and is
not just "using" it. It means that he believes the words he is speaking
or quoting or reading are the WORDS of God and he is NOT "calling them"
the words of God (or calling the Book "the word of God") because "for
all practical purposes" he may "call" it that. You can "call" anything,
anything. Hitler did; so does the news media twenty-four hours a day.
He doesn't mean anything he "calls" anything if he doesn't believe it.
Alexandrians are not sincere and they do not know what the words mean.
No Alexandrian is SINCERE. He uses your terms to convince you he
believes what YOU believe and he believes nothing of the kind.

   Proof? Watch the wheel of fortune, kiddies. Round and round she goes
and where she stops God only knows.

   D. Curtis Hutson and Bob Jones III (and every preacher that spoke in
BJU chapel in the last twenty years) has absolutely refused to correct
the English with "the Greek" in Romans 3:6, unless he stopped in the
middle of the sermon and said, "The AV is false. The real truth or
final authority for this verse says, `let it not be.'" If he did not do
that but simply read the verse as it stood in a King James Bible, he
made you think he believed something he did not believe. All editions
of the Receptus and Majority Greek texts say L-VOlTO (me genoito). The
word "God" is not in ANY Greek manuscript. They all corrected the Greek
with the English and then called you a "heretic" for doing what they
did. Of course they did what they did in INSINCERITY. If they were
really concerned with you getting THE TRUTH (and that is what they
profess to be engaged in) they would have corrected the English
immediately so you would not be "misled." They misled you on purpose.
Absolutely typical.

   E. Matthew 27:44. Only two Greek texts show up. One says "oneidizon
auton"--the Egyptian, Alexandrian text of Rome) and the other says
"oneidizon auto"--Majority and TR). Nestle refused to list the TR
reading. "The Greek" or "the Greek text" (or "the original Greek") said
"they upbraided him" or "reproached him." The English said "They cast
the same in his teeth." Every time any evangelist on this earth quoted
Matthew 27:44 (and God knows how many read this verse while preaching
on the crucifixion) without correcting it, he altered "the Greek text"
with the English. You say, "Oh well, that is just a case of `dynamic
equivalence.'" Well, so is "EASTER" in Acts 12:4. What is your problem?

   The problem is consistency. They are not consistent. They will
correct the Greek with the English one time and the English with the
Greek the next time. They don't believe either. They believe in
themselves.

   F. Matthew 27:1. For fifty years Broadus, Torrey, Carroll, Machen,
Sumner, Afman, Neal, Custer, English, Charles Fuller, DeHaan, Epp,
Crawford, Wyrtzen, Rawlings, and Vick corrected ALL of the Greek texts
with the English. No one called them "Ruckmanites" or "heretics." You
see, up till 1960 the faculty members of long tenure were SAFE: they no
longer are. There is no such thing as "SABBATH" (singular) in ANY Greek
manuscript, and if you found a "verbal, plenary, inspired original"
that said "SABBATHS" (plural) you would go right on reading "SABBATH"
(singular) every time you got in the pulpit, if you were consistent. If
you were inconsistent you would correct "the English" with "the Greek"
and say "SABBATHS" and then turn right around in 1 Corinthians 2:16
(hemeis de noun Christou echomen) and read "THE MIND OF CHRIST" when
you knew not a Greek manuscript on this earth had the article in it.

   Dual authorities: Alexandrian Cult.

   G. Don't you know that every soul winning evangelist and Bible
believing preacher in America and Europe has warned new converts about
the dangers of appearing to be doing something wrong when he was not
actually doing it? Where did this come from? Well it didn't come from
"the original Greek text" nor could anyone find it in "the original
autographs." According to the NASV, NIV, and NKJV, it was totally
missing from "THE Greek text" as well as "the oldest and best
manuscripts." It was in AV English in 1 Thessalonians 5:22. Every
apostate Fundamentalist who took the word "APPEARANCE" and wrote down
"forms" or "all kinds" or "every kind" or "every form of evil." They
all allowed you the liberty of APPEARING as a hippy, lesbian, lush,
pimp, whore, embezzler, thief, extortioner, Bible perverter, adulterer,
or queer as long as YOU WEREN'T ONE.

   Sincerity? What is THAT to an Alexandrian?

   Yoo hoo! Hey deah! Does you all knows what "eidous" means, among
"other things"? Why doesn't you all look at dat deah woad in a
concoadince? It means "APPEARANCE, shape or fashion." If you had
corrected the ASV, RV, RSV, NASV, NIV, and NRSVwith the AV on the
grounds that none of them were better translations of "the Greek text,"
you would have been right and they would have been wrong. Par for the
course.

   This has been brief. I have forty more up my sleeve. What I have
shown you here is that these phony "King James Bible Defender
Pretenders" (Herb Evans's term) are marked by two things, and neither
has anything to do with scholarship, rationale, logic, faithfulness,
science, or honesty. They have to do with INSINCERITY and
INCONSISTENCY. They do not believe what they preach is the word of God,
whether it comes from Greek or English, and they will reverse field and
switch authorities every time they get caught "between a rock and a
hard place."

   Don't worry your pretty little head about folks thinking you are a
"Ruckmanite" if you believe you can correct "the Greek" with the
English. Everyone does it, everyone always has, and always will, and
those who profess otherwise will NOT even correct the English with the
Greek in their public ministries for they would be caught with their
pants down, and people would find out quickly that their motive in
doing it had nothing to do with a desire for them to find ABSOLUTE
TRUTH: it always has to do with getting you to accept THEM as final
authorities.

   There isn't one exception in 1900 years of church history.