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If you've ever heard that Ruckman's Bible commentaries are unconventional--that is an understatement! Below is an example of what we mean. We only scanned one page, but the jokes continue half-way into the next page. 

How has Ruckman lured hundreds of preachers living overseas into coming to hear him speak? By offering money--and lots of it. The documentation below about a conference in India that attracted approximately 1,450 pastors comes from p. 18 of the Bible Believer's Bulletin, Aug. 2001. We also added something from p. 356 of his autobiography The Full Cup about the total they paid Filipino pastors to attend a Ruckman conference in their country.

There are many against Ruckmanism who believe such teaching is losing ground and fading fast, therefore it can safely be ignored. There is no doubt that it has fallen into disrepute, but we at Ruckmanism.org believe there is a danger in believing that Ruckmanism will simply go away if it is ignored. One area of concern is how Ruckmanite missionaries (sometimes supported in part by unsuspecting non-Ruckmanite churches) are exporting Ruckman's doctrines by establishing Bible institutes that utilize his textboooks, and are actively translating his literature.

In Ruckman's The Path of the Second Advent booklet he comes across as if he knows the exact route the Lord will take in the second phase of his coming. He is so confident that he referred to his route as an advanced revelation in the King James Bible. He even referred to some he was mocking for not being able to find the path of the second advent as "Bible babies" and "Bible blockheads." (p. 1, 2003 reprint) On the last page of his booklet he has a map showing the exact route the Lord is supposed to take.

The two images contain a sample page on the left from Alban Douglas' book first copyrighted in 1966 One Hundred Bible Lessons: God's Answers to Man's Questions. On the right of the two images are a sample page from two different booklets from the series Theological Studies by Peter Ruckman copyrighted in the 1980's. No mention or credit is given in Ruckman's Theological Studies for Alban Douglas' work. We are presenting only a sampling of what we found in Ruckman's Theological Studies series. Many more examples could be given. Is this plagiarism? You decide.

This booklet was printed by Ruckman in 1988 and is no longer in print. Here's a jewel from page 20. To understand the quote, it should be explained that he had played with the number 1989 (the year he was guessing that the rapture would occur) in a confusing mathematical formula to come up with the number 382:

Ruckman teaches that angels have no wings (Theological Studies, Booklet 18, p. 5). Ruckman has to deny that Seraphims are angels, as they have wings (Isa. 6:2). Note also that Dan. 9:21 and Rev. 14:6 describes an angel flying.  However, notice how he put wings on the angels in his artwork he drew for the book Ruckman's Apocalypse. In the introduction Ruckman excused himself saying that "if you don't put wings on them, the average person will not know what they are; not even the average Christian." Without having a Scripture reference to prove it, Ruckman also teaches that angels are all 33 year old males. You may also be interested in knowing that Ruckman teaches that angels are stars (The Book of Matthew. 1978, p. 32). We believe it is more accurate to teach that angels are sometimes symbolized by stars in Revelation, but to say that they are stars without pointing out any symbolism is really stretching it.

I always wondered how much shorter his books would be without the ridiculously lengthy lists of people and institutions he despises.

Below is a photo of the major portion of our collection of Ruckman books, pamphlets and recordings. We are posting them here because we have been accused more than once of just borrowing Ruckman quotes from others who have written against him. Although exactly what to count is debatable, our figures reveal that Ruckman has written 138 books, tracts and pamphlets, totalling 32,718 pages.* One thing is certain--Ruckman is not a lazy man!

Perhaps this Ruckman statement corresponds:

“Well done thou faithful, feebleminded servant of the Devil. Thou hast been faithful to the Scholars’ Union, enter thou into the joy of the apostate Nicolaitans who have earned a crown of corruption.”
Ruckman, Peter. The Books of First and Second Thessalonians and Philemon. 2005, p. 179

John R. Rice, then editor of The Sword of the Lord, had a falling out with Ruckman around 1972 after Ruckman published his controversial book The Christian's Handbook of Manuscript Evidence. If this is intriguing to you, you will be interested in the article The deterioration of Ruckman’s language demonstrated in his changing treatment of John R. Rice

There are several things of interest in this ad. It points out that he was scheduled to speak in an Assembly of God church as well as a Methodist church. It also makes the claim that Ruckman speaks three foreign languages.

Ruckman has been known to mock preachers whose pictures show up repeatedly in the same publication . Considering he's allowed his bookstore to sell coffee mugs with his picture plastered on it, I think it's another case of "do as I say, not as I do."

Some Ruckmanites seem to go even farther than Ruckman in their teachings. However--have you ever read Ruckman castigating them? Here is a graphic from a Ruckmanite website in the Philippines.

Photos of the parking lot of Ruckman's church taken by the webmaster in 2007. I can understand having a bumper sticker or two in order to help spread the gospel or a moral message, but isn't this over the top? What do you think?

 In these photos the bumper stickers are everywhere except--the bumper! (Actually they are probably magnetic stickers).

Can you believe this? One of the latest books by Peter Ruckman features a painting on the front cover of the KJV dying on the cross instead of Christ.