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... https://www.e-rara.ch/bau_1/content/t... https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/zoo... https://www.e-rara.ch/bau_1/content/z... https://www.e-rara.ch/bau_1/content/z... https://www.e-rara.ch/bau_1/content/t... https://www.e-rara.ch/bau_1/content/t... https://www.e-rara.ch/bau_1/content/t... https://www.e-rara.ch/bau_1/content/t... https://www.e-rara.ch/bau_1/content/t... https://www.e-rara.ch/bau_1/content/t... 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 🎁 Help me end Bible translation tribalism, one plow boy at a time: ✅   / mlward   ✅ https://buymeacoffee.com/mlward 📖 Check out my book, Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible: http://amzn.to/2r27Boz 🎥 Watch my Fifty False Friends in the KJV series:    • 150 False Friends in the KJV   👏 Many, many thanks to the Patreon supporters who make my work possible!