10 Ways to Avoid Ruckmanism

This video took more work than any other I've done. I collected quotes for it for three years; I wrote the script over the course of two years; I shot the video over the course of one year. That does mean that one or two clips address Confessional Bibliology, a group which I subsequently decided not to engage publicly for a time, times, and half a time. Also, I called Joe Shakour “King James Only” and thought nothing of it. I have since talked further with him and would not use this label, at his request. Nota bene. I just didn't have the energy and time to go back and reshoot those segments.

A few more notes:
- I shot the initial segments on Ruckmanism (at the beautiful site in Anacortes) almost a year before the release of the video, and after talking at some length with a courteous follower of Ruckman (I still don't know how those things go together) I now think it more accurate to say that Ruckman believed that the KJV "improved upon" rather than "corrected" the Greek. But Ruckman*ism* as a viewpoint is still commonly regarded among mainstream KJV-Onlyists to involve "double inspiration," even if that's not language Ruckman would have used. That is what these brothers are rejecting, so it is the focus of this video.
- Here is the report I produced, twenty years ago now, on the views of Peter Ruckman: http://d.pr/f/C3XT98.
- I have a couple minor typos in quotes. I left out a "c" in the word "complete" in a Gail Riplinger quote.

SEGMENTS
0:00 - Intro
12:52 - 1. Carefully define the words “preserved,” “intact,” and “pure” when applied to a translation.
19:44 - 2. Don’t call the KJV translators' choices "God's Words" in a way that other translations are not.
25:50 - 3. Don’t ascribe perfection to the KJV translators’ textual-critical choices.
31:12 - 4. Don’t invoke faith vs. rationalism and put the KJV on the former side of the line with all other translations on the opposite side.
37:20 - 5. Publicly acknowledge an error in the KJV, or at least a place where you would have translated differently.
40:47 - 6. Don’t speak of the King James as a word-for-word representation of the Greek and Hebrew.
44:03 - 7. Don’t speak hagiographically of the KJV translators and disparagingly of all contemporary translators.
48:53 - 8. Don’t treat the KJV as a sacred object and all contemporary versions as ritually unclean.
51:31 - 9. Admit to the existence of false friends in the KJV.
57:33 - 10. Don’t equivocate with your use of the word “Bible.”
59:46 - Conclusion

Links to various editions of Erasmus' GNT, as shown in video:
https://www.e-rara.ch/bau_1/content/t...
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Links to Stephanus' and Beza's TRs are at:
https://kjvparallelbible.org/which-tr...

Links to the Sunday school series by Matthew Hanke from which I quoted :
https://mbcshelby.org/listen/on-deman...

I quoted from:
Lesson 12 beginning at 28:06
Lesson 14 beginning at 07:33
Lesson 15 beginning at 36:29
Lesson 17 beginning at 02:25


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