What Dr. Peter Ruckman Thought About Salvation

Abouts


Tyler McLaughlin

Born June 2006

I was saved at 12 years old on May 25th, 2019 by Pastor Gene Kim of Bible Baptist Church, San Francisco.

My family never really went to church or told me anything of Christ aside from generic platitudes of Christian doctrine.

I struggled with youthful lusts, and I knew the depravity of them. However, I kept sinning and it came to a head when I found a false doctrine on Hebrews 10:26, a pit too big: that if you sin knowing it is wrong, you are unforgiveable. You dig a pit too big to get out of.

Knowing that I had knowledge of my sin, I knew if that was real, I was going to hell. If anyone was going to hell, it was me. I had complete knowledge, even without doctrine, that it was wrong.

I kept trying to look for any objections to this unpardonable sin, however all that I found in the mainstream only assured me I was going to burn in hell and that I had dug a pit too big.

I remember thinking if I was damned to hell at the end of my life, I might as well make it a quick journey today.

I then remembered Gene Kim's YouTube channel and sought to find a video he had made on the unpardonable sin.

I watched it yet it did not comfort me. Seeing a video in the sidebar that he had made on how to get saved, I clicked on it.

Gene Kim explained the gospel and how Jesus Christ died, was buried, and rose again so his blood could wash away my sins, and that if I asked him to save me, my sins could be washed away.

I remember being on the edge of my seat with every word he spoke, desperately wanting to be saved, believing every word he spoke.

Finally, he said if you do not know how to pray, pray this prayer with him, and so I did.

“Dear God, I know I’m a sinner. As I repent, I put my faith that Jesus is God and that He died, was buried, and resurrected so that His blood can wash away my sins. I put my faith in that alone to save me, not my good works. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

I believed and prayed it and ever since then, I have been saved.

It has now been six years and I am now 19 years old. I have won Americans, Europeans, Arabic Muslim speakers, Japanese, and Eastern Orthodox to Christ, among others.

I constantly try to contend for the faith and for how to properly receive the gospel and the blood, so others can be saved like I was on one lonely May 25th.

That is the reason I make videos on salvation and Dr. Ruckman’s specific views on salvation. It is so others can do what I did on that lonely day.

My life verses are these:

Jude 1:3 “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”
Micah 7:8 “Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.”

If you are in the pit I was in, this site exists for you.


Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

Born November 19, 1921, died April 21, 2016.

Dr. Ruckman was a highly influential American Independent Baptist pastor and teacher who founded Pensacola Bible Institute, authored over 100 books and commentaries, and left a lasting mark on the KJV-Only movement.

I will not get into the specifics of his ministry or his life, as it is not the subject of this site.

However, popularity attracts people who want to get into the spotlight.

In response to receiving Breaker III’s pamphlets after Breaker II’s death in 2010, Peter Ruckman wrote the following:

“All of your publicity-mad little nobodies, (trying to hotdog it all the time), only want to be recognized as SPIRITUAL LEADERS. To do this, you are forced to associate yourself sooner or later with ‘Peter Ruckman.’ You all have to hang on my shirt tail to get a hearing in the Body of Christ. Evidently, ‘Peter Ruckman’ must be in the spotlight since all of you are struggling to get into it. You’re getting connected with the wrong crew. Weldon Jones, (a life-long missionary to Hispanics), led more Hispanics to Jesus Christ in one YEAR with an ‘impure Valera’ - THAN YOU DID IN 7 YEARS WHILE SPENDING YOUR TIME IN STOPPING THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE VALERA YOU DIDN’T LIKE.”
Peter Ruckman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPI6Wce38qk https://archive.is/1Ub0P#selection-2069.11-2094.0

Robert Ray Breaker III

Born July 1974

Background

Most of what we have about Breaker III’s early life comes from him alone, so what can be reliably said is little.

That being said, this is what did happen.

His parents divorced during his childhood.

His father developed a theology that Peter Ruckman would later call the Milton Gospel: that salvation requires only an internal trust in the Blood of Christ alone, with no vocal confession or prayer required. Under this view, mental assent to the blood atonement is sufficient and complete. If you did a vocal confession or a prayer as a requirement for salvation, that is a work according to his father.

Breaker III claims that as a child he said the sinner’s prayer 1,800 times, and states he did the math. He cites this personal experience as evidence that requiring vocal confession produces false assurance rather than genuine salvation.

It should be noted that Breaker III has a significant personal and theological investment in this memory being true. A man who built his ministry on the premise that vocal confession is a work adding to salvation has every reason to say he experienced the woes of the sinner’s prayer in his youth. Whether the memory is accurate, embellished, or precisely calculated is something only Breaker III can know. What can be observed is that his sole witnesses to both his childhood experience and his father’s theology are himself and his late father.

His father, Robert Ray Breaker II, audited classes at Pensacola Bible Institute in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Breaker II’s time at PBI was limited to auditing classes, not full enrollment. An auditor has no formal academic relationship with the institution, is not examined on the material, and has no verified record of attendance or comprehension. Whatever Breaker II understood Ruckman to teach during that period is entirely self-reported and unverifiable, regardless of how many years the auditing continued. Breaker III nonetheless cites this auditing as primary evidence that Ruckman taught the Milton Gospel from the late 1970s onward.

His father recommended Breaker III attend PBI, and he enrolled from 1995 to 1998.

Breaker III at some point then joined the PBI mission board and became a missionary.

At some point in the early 2000s, the PBI mission board, including Peter Ruckman, removed Breaker III as a missionary.

Breaker III does not publicly record that he was removed from the mission board. He describes his departure as voluntary.

https://www.rrb3.com/Left/reasons_left_church.htm

After Breaker II’s death in April 2010, Breaker III mailed pamphlets to a number of religious leaders including Peter Ruckman. This led to Peter Ruckman writing him a letter back.

This is Peter Ruckman’s own accounting of why Breaker III was removed from the mission board:

“We didn’t dump you as a missionary because of any problem over ANY translation in ANY language. WE dropped you because:

1. You lied about being a pastor at Garcon Point, you only supplied a couple of times when the pastor was absent. You didn’t win a soul to Christ the entire time you pastured either in Honduras.

2. You did not really pastor anyone in Honduras. You did exactly what you are doing now, traveling back and forth to the States. THEN you were doing it to visit your girlfriend. You are now doing it to establish yourself as an authority on foreign translations, as a saviour to Hispanics.

3. You have always preached a lousy Milton Gospel established in your hometown, (Milton, Fla.)...”
Peter Ruckman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPI6Wce38qk https://archive.is/1Ub0P#selection-1817.0-1914.0

The Ruckman Question

Breaker III parted ways with Dr. Ruckman and did not publicly name him at any time, save for a single reference to an article from Ruckman’s magazine, the Bible Believers Bulletin in 2011, when Breaker was using it to argue for a translation. https://youtu.be/hy1pOHngQS8?si=IKHORUR4yz6H_0O4&t=242

After Peter Ruckman’s death in 2016, Breaker III waited a year and finally named Peter Ruckman directly in June 2017. He then continued naming Peter Ruckman with increasing frequency.

Breaker III mentioned Peter Ruckman 53 times in 2017 alone.

Most instances were solely to defend his father’s Milton Gospel, claiming Peter Ruckman also taught it as a weapon against critics.

In 2018, Breaker III began to diversify how he invoked the dead pastor, mentioning Peter Ruckman in everything and anything.

Critics blame him for getting a rapture date wrong? Peter Ruckman did that.

Recording a family video of him eating fried chicken with his wife? Peter Ruckman ate fried chicken.

Note: Seriously, that is a real thing he did. A man with nearly 800,000 subscribers found it relevant to mention Peter Ruckman while eating fried chicken with his wife. He did it three times across the video.

Breaker III mentioned Peter Ruckman 113 times in 2018 alone. I have not counted the years following 2018.

Breaker III however primarily used Peter Ruckman in the context of weaponizing him against critics who would judge his Milton Gospel.

To support this, Breaker III cited three things:

His own time at PBI from 1995 to 1998.

A letter from Peter Ruckman to his late father claiming Ruckman believed the Milton Gospel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vy0FFRX2ro

Peter Ruckman quotes that were either taken out of context, where Ruckman taught the blood as part of salvation alongside vocally receiving it, or did not exist and were fabricated by Breaker III.

Breaker III also cited his father’s audited time at PBI as a witness that Ruckman taught the Milton Gospel from the late 1970s to early 1980s.

This led to widespread belief among both Breaker III’s audience and Ruckman’s followers that Ruckman had taught the Milton Gospel.

When challenged over this, Breaker III would direct his followers to harass and attack anyone who claimed Peter Ruckman did not teach the Milton Gospel.

That is what led me to create the 1950s, 1960s–1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s sermon compilations demonstrating that Ruckman consistently taught belief and vocal reception together from the beginning of his ministry to his death, alongside a direct response to the letter.