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Response to the Review by Vic Reasoner of The Arminian Magazine
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The Rod: Will God Spare It?. J. D. Faust,
Hayesville, NC: Schoettle Publishing Co, 2002.
437 pages.Faust writes that living in a future millennium is a prize which can be forfeited. However, Faust also teaches eternal security and in an attempt to reconcile this doctrine with rest of Scripture, he concludes that many Christians will miss the millennium because they lived carnally or in rebellion. Thus, entrance into the millennium is conditional and those believers who were not overcomers are excluded from the millennial kingdom, although not from final salvation.
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20 Questions for KJV Onlyists Who Object to Millenial Exclusion
[Please send answers to pastor@kingdombaptist.org for inclusion on our web site]
- In 1 Corinthians 9:27 Paul labors to keep from being a “castaway.” In Luke 9, Jesus addresses His disciples (including Peter, vv.20, 23), and John and James (v.27-28), and He also warns them about the possibility of being “cast away” (v.25). Why don’t you use Luke 9:25 to understand what Paul means in 1 Corinthians 9:27?
- Did the warning in Luke 9:25 still apply to Peter, James and John when Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 9:27?
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Is Paul the Chief Cornerstone?
The Bitter Fruits of Pauline Exaggerationism
1 Corinthians 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I AM OF PAUL; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
1 Corinthians 11:1 Be ye followers of me, EVEN AS I ALSO AM OF CHRIST.
Read More1 Corinthians 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than THAT IS LAID, which is JESUS CHRIST.
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THE (So-Called) FLAMING TORCH VS. THE ROD
I dropped this bomb, and I see that the FIRST attack against my book has come from a group of my fundamentalist, KJV Only brethren. Many in this crowd love a good fight or controversy. Coughing up smoke from being exposed to the fiery, Biblical doctrine of my book, the Flaming Torch, edited by Evangelist Don Edwards, has allowed Herb Evans (who often writes many things I agree with) to write three inflammatory articles attacking my position and warning the fundamental pastors that have reviewed my book and have fellowship with me, that such fellowship will not be tolerated by THEM. (If the position of my book is correct, we may all learn real soon Who has the REAL FLAMING TORCH. It will give “inflammatory” a whole new meaning.) According to them, you are allowed to sing songs and praise the ministries of those that taught you could lose salvation (i.e. burn trillions of years, on out into eternity) for certain sins (such as the Wesleys, Asbury, Sam Jones, Peter Cartwright, Bob Shuler, etc.). You are allowed to fellowship with those that teach that the warnings apply to eternal salvation through works (that can be LOST) in the Old Testament and Tribulation Period (i.e. Ruckmanism). But you are forewarned, that to have fellowship with any man that teaches temporary punishment for carnal Christians (who do not repent) at the Judgment Seat and during the Millennial Kingdom, is to invite THEIR disapproval and absolute wrath. How inconsistent and hypocritical! One writer (Doug Sehourne), in this same newspaper, puts it like this, “anyone who does [i.e. believe this doctrine] is a PURE IDIOT, MORON, zilch upstairs, 00 I.Q!” This comes from a man who has NOT read my book, who is writing in a newspaper edited by a man who has NOT read my book! This is the type of language and railing you can fall into when your doctrine removes NT Christians from the warnings of the Lord Jesus in Matthew 5, etc. Paul agrees:
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Response to James W. Knox’s “Will Some Christians Miss the Kingdom?”
James W. Knox of Deland, Florida seems like a nice enough fellow. He has placed in print an 81 page booklet called, “Will Some Christians Miss the Kingdom?” Knox embraces many true doctrines; however, he has erred in falling for a radical hyper-dispensational antinomianism that is entirely new to fundamental Baptist theology. He even views John 15 as applying to Israel! It is important to understand that Knox is responding to an article written by brother Bill Jackson called “If,” which is only meant to be an overview and primer for understanding accountability teaching. I recently (July 15, 2002) mailed Knox a copy of my 440 page book. But his booklet was written months before he ever read one page of my book. In fact, every objection Knox raises is already answered in my book. Knox simply goes further than most hyper-dispensationalists have dared to go in ducking accountability. To Knox, the warnings to believers simply tell professors to become Christians. And any other warning supposedly applies to Israel, even though it is directed to believing disciples, and Christ commissioned His disciples to teach His words to all the nations (Matthew 28). In conclusion, if anyone thinks he may read Knox’s booklet and find answers to the arguments of a 440 page book that Knox has never read, filled with 6 years of research, with quotes and arguments from rare books around the world, he is greatly and presumptuously deceived. His booklet is NOT an answer to my book, or even to brother Jackson’s article. Knox chose to sidetrack the issue by debating the various views of the KJV’s perfection. For the record, Bill Jackson does not believe in CORRECTING the KJV by the Greek, but in getting more insight from Greek definitions (which I have seen many Ruckmanites even do). However, this is not a practice I engage in. I have a large collection of English dictionaries (new and old), and feel that I am able to find the fullness of meaning in English. But the whole debate is beside the point! Brother Jackson’s arguments and points stand regardless of the Greek debate. You cannot dismiss them by simply pointing out that brother Bill quoted the Greek. Our dear brother Knox appears to have jumped the gun by attempting to shoot down a subject that is far more complex than he realizes. Ironically, I will help publicize his booklet as an EXAMPLE of what Christians are left with if they try to refute the accountability truths. However, I do warn readers that Knox’s booklet is NOT an answer to my book. He has not even read any of my book yet! When he does so – any of it – we welcome and encourage the debate.
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Peter Ruckman:The Big Flap and the Rod
I share Peter Ruckman’s belief that the Authorized Version is the inspired Bible (Scriptures) in English. There have been thousands (mainly among the common people), who have believed this truth before Ruckman (for example, see William B. Riley’s, “The Menace of Modernism,”1917). An increasing number of fundamental Christian teachers have moved toward this position in recent decades; some, because of Ruckman’s writings; others, in spite of them.
In 1984, Peter Ruckman wrote an article called, “The Big Flap.” It does away with the “rod of God” for unfaithful Christians at the Judgment Seat of Christ by giving the warning passages in Matthew, Hebrews, and the Book of Revelation entirely to TRIBULATION believers. In this article, he writes:
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