A Grievous Wolf - Time for Truth

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In answer to Grievous Wolf’s first question, he should at least have the integrity to state the basis for
that question. The basis is from The History of the New Testament Church Vol. 1 by Dr. Peter S.
Ruckman, Bible Baptist Bookstore, 1982, p 374, as found in this writer’s earlier work “O Biblios” –
The Book, Section 4.1, p 25. See p 16 of the uploaded file Volume 1, www.timefortruth.co.uk/why-avonly/.
See also www.timefortruth.co.uk/content/pages/documents/1311767565.pdf.
““To fulfil Acts 1:8 [for the Lord’s witnesses to go to “the uttermost part of the earth”]..All the Lord
needed was a Bible in line with what He had already written and preserved; since He had already decreed
(in 1000 BC) that there had to be present “the word of a King” Ecclesiastes 8:4 before there
could be any spiritual “power” in that word (Romans 13:1-4), and since His king was a JEW (John
18:34)...God needed a king with a Jewish name; He got one...this time it was JAMES. James is the
English word for JACOB.””
Grievous Wolf obviously doesn’t know church history or he is unconcerned about the need to fulfil the
Great Commission as expressed in Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:15, Luke 24:45-49, John 20:21, Acts
1:8. Inspection of the above site under the heading Gone into all the world will show that God set
about fulfilling the Great Commission as Dr Ruckman describes above and as he sets out in considerable
detail in his two-volume work The History of the New Testament Church.
Grievous Wolf clearly cannot refute any of Dr Ruckman’s material in the above work, which is probably
why he is too cowardly to cite any of it explicitly.
Concerning the person of King James 1 st , Grievous Wolf is lying again. See Questions 10, 15, 16, 25,
26, 37. It should be noted that while Grievous Wolf lists certain historians who have written books on
King James 1 st , he does not cite anything that they say about James 1 st . He has only given page references
and publishers’ details in order to portray himself as a researcher.
Like Amnon’s friend Jonadab, Grievous would be a dangerous friend to have around.
“But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab
was a very subtil man” 2 Samuel 13:3.
Yet again, Grievous Wolf has resorted to insinuation. See Introduction, Questions 12, 16, 28, 31, 45,
46. The historical material on James 1 st follows, starting with this material from this writer’s earlier
work “O Biblios” – The Book, Section 12.3, pp 270-272.
See pp 199ff of the uploaded file Volume 4, www.timefortruth.co.uk/why-av-only/.
Most of the material on James in Chapter 4 [of “O Biblios”] was stated specifically to consist of extracts
from a Christian Newsletter, Battle Cry Sept./Oct. 1985. A copy of the item could have been forwarded
to our critic upon request. Although the author, Baptist Pastor David Ralston, does not explicitly
reference every quotation about James which he uses in his article, he does list his sources. They include
the well-known works by Caroline Bingham, William McElwee and Lady Antonia Fraser.
Any objective examination of these extracts would reveal that their main purpose was not to present
James himself in any hue whatsoever. The purpose was to highlight the outstanding achievements of
James’ reign, culminating in the publication of the Authorised Version. Whatever his shortcomings,
James was a saved man whom God had endowed with great wisdom, great courage and Royal authority,
essential qualifications for being “the principal Mover and Author of the work” of making “God’s holy
Truth to be yet more and more known unto the people”...
Ralston makes it clear that much of the criticism of James stems from two main sources. One was “M.
Fontenay, an agent for Mary Stuart who plotted for James’ throne” and who “fostered much of the
slanderous assault against the king.” The other was Anthony Weldon, “who successfully blackened
King James through the pen portrait he first published in 1650...Antonia Fraser writes, “In fairness to
James, (Weldon) should never be quoted without the important rider that he had been excluded from
Court circles and had in consequence, a pathological hatred of the Stuarts. Weldon has had his revenge
for the slight injuries done to him.””