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Originally Posted by Vendetta Ride
Nonsense.
Thank you; I've been aware of that since the first week I became a Christian (I was blessed with good teachers). And nobody's disputing it. Dr. Ruckman asked for a verse, in the Old Testament prophets, that said, specifically, that one is saved purely by faith in the Messiah. No such verse exists. Isaiah 53:10, 11 comes close, but not quite; and, anyway, Isaiah is not "all the prophets," as Peter says in Acts 10:43.
Do all of the Old Testament prophets bear witness of Jesus Christ? In one way or another, yes. But they simply do not say that anyone will be saved by faith in Christ alone. They had not been given that revelation. (Peter's words in Acts 10:43 are similar to Jesus's words in John 9:58.) There is no contradiction or problem here at all.
The real point of Acts 10:43 is found in the word "whosoever." He is telling the people that salvation will not be limited to the Jews. This is the context of the verse; the entire chapter concerns God granting salvation to the Gentiles. Acts 10 is where Peter has the vision of the sheet, and where the first Gentile convert to Christ (Cornelius) is recorded. Acts 10:43 is part of Peter's first sermon to Gentiles, immediately after receiving the vision. There's no need to complicate it.
Nobody's questioning the word of God, thank you; we are attempting to understand it.
Unless you've known him longer than I have (25 years), and unless you've read his works, you simply don't know what you're talking about.
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Tell you what, you can go ahead and defend the false prophet Ruckman. (he did falsely predict the rapture in 1989; of course you would know this if you have known him that long.)
Ruckman, Peter. The Bible Believer's Bulletin, January 1989, p. 5
You can defend this man who thinks people who study the Greek and Hebrew are infidel's. (wasn't the original Bible written in those languages?).
Ruckman’s Bible References: Personal Notes on Salient Verses in the Bible, 1997, p. 85
You can defend this man who claims women will be changed into males at the rapture. (where is that in the Word of God?)
Ruckman, Peter. 22 Years of the Bible Believer’s Bulletin Vol. 1 “The AV Holy Bible” p. 110
You can defend this man who claims that Adam did not have blood in his veins but water (again, where is this in the Bible?)
Ruckman, Peter. Ruckman’s Bible References: Personal Notes on Salient Verses in the Bible, p. 25
Ruckman is deceiving many and being deceived by the devil himself.
I will believe the Word of God. It alone is the way to life everlasting, not the junk that Ruckman teaches his idolizing idiots.