Is this Ruckman’s favorite person to talk about?

When reading Ruckman's literature we cannot help but wonder if he himself is his favorite person to talk about. One does not have to search long among Ruckman's writings to encounter extended mentions of his personal feats, exploits, achievements, experiences and heroic actions. For instance, in what he implies was a sermon, he starts off as follows in the very first minute:

I’m going to talk to you a while this morning about myself, for a while. As “foolishly boasting,” you know. Most of my sermons are about something else, but I’m talking about myself this morning … I’m never that much interested in anybody else. (Ruckman, Peter. Personal Testimony of Dr. Peter S. Ruckman. n.d., CD audio recording, 1992, track 3)

We believe Ruckman at times displays narcissist behaviour. One sign of such conduct are repeated denials or an inability to recognize that there is an inordinate fascination with oneself. In the following quote, Ruckman denies overestimating his own importance, while doing just that:

I know who the targets are in the next two or three years. On this "prophesy" I can't miss because the government has defined what a "target" is. A target is any white, adult male who publishes or promotes facts, documents, or figures that reveal the planned genocide and "search and seizure" of American assets. …
So, the next man on the hit list would probably be that famous junk yard dog from Pensacola, Florida, Peter S. Ruckman. I don't kid myself about these things. I don't overestimate my importance, but I know where I stand with the New World and the New Age and the News Media. …
This means, if the Lord tarries, I know my destination. I am predestinated to stop a bullet or maybe a more subtle method, such as an accidental car wreck or accidental plane crash or a logical looking "suicide" or an ordinary "heart attack." (Bible Believers' Bulletin. May 1997, pp. 12, 14, 17)

We are not trying to brag about our knowledge or trying to strut it (although it seems this way to the prejudiced bigots… (Ruckman, Peter. The Books of Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians. 1973, 1980 p. 350)

Ruckman frequently uses falacious arguments. An example of one is that he often portrays himself as if it were virtually impossible to fool him, frequently bringing up his academic accomplishments and life experiences as if that has uniquely equipped him to recognize falsehoods like no one else on earth:

What you know about the contents of Scripture, I know, and if it is in THE BOOK I probably know it a great deal better than the men who TAUGHT you THE BOOK know it. If that is “foolishness in boasting” (2 Cor. 11:17, 12:6), so be it. I will “stand to it” at the Judgment Seat of Christ. You’d better get prepared to “stand” too; (Bible Believers' Bulletin. Sep. 2005, p. 13)

It will be a cold day in Mobile, in July, when these Alexandrian jacklegs lecture me on “What the Bible Teaches.” I have been through it 130 times in English, and I study it in German, Spanish, Latin, Hebrew and Greek;
Ruckman, Peter. How to teach the Bible. Pensacola, FL: Bible Baptist Bookstore, 2000 reprint, p. 2

[After bragging at length about his experiences and accomplishments] They would call the above “bragging,” “blowing your own horn,” and “boasting,” but only to cover up the fact that they themselves HAVE NOT HAD ENOUGH EXPERIENCE IN LIFE to teach a young man anything … (Ruckman, Peter. The Mythological Septuagint. Pensacola: Bible Baptist Bookstore, 1999, p. 93-94)

You don’t slip us the shaft that easily. You see, some of us who have been around here over half a century know a con man when we see one. You might fool some proud, educated chump who is looking for a way to let folks know how smart he is, but you aren’t going to fool us old exinfantrymen and ex dance band drummers for a minute. We know the shills and the eyeshades when we see them, and we’ve seen crap games where the man could roll the bones better than you could translate. (Ruckman, Peter. The book of Minor Prophets Vol. 1 Hosea-Nahum. 1978, 1984 reprint, p. 4)

"Ruckman" knows everything the cloned robot knows, has read everything he has read, and studied under the men who taught him (and if Ruckman has not yet read some unique material, he could obtain it and correct it in less than two days). (Bible Believers' Bulletin. June 2000, p. 6)

You won't fool a man who has READ everything you've read and more … You won't fool old junk yard dog Pete Ruckman SN 0927153. (Bible Believers' Bulletin. May 1990, p. 18)

Ruckman may add an obligatory "by the grace of God" in passing while mentioning unbelievable accomplishments, as if that made it immune from being labeled as personal boasting as in the following:

I have run or walked, by the grace of God, more than 9,000 miles in my bare feet since I was fifty-five years old (1976). (Bible Believers' Bulletin. Dec. 2002, p. 4)

Ruckman loves to come across to his followers as almost superhuman. Here is a small portion from an editorial in his paper in which this becomes apparent:

My bare feet (9 EE) have pounded the blacktop and the asphalt of the highways and streets of … [lists about 20 cities] from 10 p.m. to midnight. At one time —when I was sixty-two years old— I had callouses on my feet you could strike a match on. I jogged an average of one mile a day for nearly twelve years (50 to 62 years old) and then took up ice hockey at sixty. … I am not boasting. I am simply saying that God gave me a life so full that it would do for ten lives of just about anyone. (Bible Believers' Bulletin. Oct. 1990, pp. 8, 16)

In a book about Bible manuscripts, Ruckman feels the need to fill two pages with his accomplishments to compare with the supposed lack of experience of competing teachers:

I am a teacher with five earned degrees: three of them being degrees for a teacher. But I have lived in barracks, foxholes, Quonset huts, fraternity houses, dormitories, tents, Swali huts, motels, slit trenches, hotels, trailers, and houses. I have spent my life on beaches, in forests, in the mountains, on the streets, in the jails, on the highways, on the airwaves, on the ocean waves, in gardens, in jungles, on railroad tracks, drill fields, highways, dirt tracks, athletic fields, paths, gravel roads, and black tops. I began in the ministry (1949) by preaching in jails and on street corners. At seventy-seven years of age (1999), I am preaching in jails and on street corners. …
My pedagogy for my position as a “Bible teacher” has been playing in Country and Western bands, Swing bands, Jazz combos, and marching bands, and participating in football, baseball, softball, soccer, racquetball, tennis, ice hockey, street hockey, Aikido, Karate, roller-blade hockey, Taekwando, Judo, golf, weightlifting, and water polo. Along the way, I taught myself how to play four musical instruments and how to paint (and draw) in pen and pencil, charcoal and crayon, pastels and colored pencils, acrylics and oil, and water color. I did this while splitting kindling, cutting down timber, tilling dirt, shoveling manure, mending fishing nets, cleaning out septic tanks and grease traps, digging post holes, raising German shepherds and three families, paying off three houses, nineteen cars, two churches, and a school. 
THAT is the kind of talk that these turkeys can’t stand (2 Cor. 11:10–12, 18). They cannot deal with FACTS, where “Ruckman” is involved. They would call the above “bragging,” “blowing your own horn,” and “boasting,” but only to cover up the fact that they themselves HAVE NOT HAD ENOUGH EXPERIENCE IN LIFE to teach a young man anything … (Ruckman, Peter. The Mythological Septuagint. Pensacola: Bible Baptist Bookstore, 1999, p. 93-94)

Many examples of Ruckman focusing an inordinate amount of attention on himself can be gleaned from his writings. Here are some random examples:

My toting of 8-foot four-by-fours on both shoulders (garden work) and two fifty-pound sacks of fertilizer or seed on the shoulders (garden work) and playing two hours of ice hockey and street hockey “at a lick”—sometimes in temperatures of seventy to eighty-five degrees— and jogging a mile a day (in my bare feet) on asphalt highways for thirty-four years, and practicing martial arts (Judo, Karate, Tae Kwondo, and Aikido) up until I was seventy-five years old… (Bible Believers' Bulletin. Dec. 2006, p. 2)

Ever sleep in the woods at night? I mean as a grown man. I have. Ever sleep on the beach at night? I have. Ever hunt wild turkey in the woods? I have. Ever have the lightning crash around you about once every four minutes for half an hour? I have. Have you been in the surf while a hurricane was coming in? (I mean at forty-eight years old!) I have. Have you actually seen the Japanese in their rice paddies or coming into town with their “honey buckets?” I have. Have you ever gone into the bamboo thickets of Luzon, on Corregidor, and cut bamboo with a machete? I have. (Ruckman, Peter. Bible Believers' Bulletin Reprint #7 Strictly Personal. 2004, Pensacola: Bible Baptist Bookstore, p. 274)

In what is supposed to be a commentary on the book of Psalms, as he commented on Ps. 104:30 –which is about the glory of God and his creative acts– Ruckman directed the focus to himself:

I have body surfed the waves of the Atlantic in a "northeaster"; I have slept on the moonlight-washed deck of a liberty ship in the South Pacific. I have rolled on the pounding swells off the coasts of Washington and British Columbia till half of the passengers were sick; I have fished the Gulf of Mexico in the morning, at noon, in the evening, and after midnight. I have swim in Manila Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and Pearl Harbor, and have gone underwater to retrieve keys, glasses, fishing nets, rods and reels, and billfolds, in waters eight to fifteen feet deep, both in sunlight and moonlight. I have had manta rays come at me when I was waist deep in the water, sharks dive for me. When I was in two feet of water, stingrays strike me in muddy water, bluefish bite my shirt sleeve and bust their teeth out chomping down on a knife, blade jammed in their mouth to retrieve a hook; and I have stood in schools of "spots" and "L-Ys" at night that were so thick they literally brushed against my bare feet and arms, passing through. (Ruckman, Peter. The Book of Psalms. Vol. 2. Pensacola: Bible Baptist Bookstore, 2002 reprint, p. 1036)

Quite often Ruckman portrays himself as if he was God’s gift to mankind. As if Christianity would have degenerated to outright apostasy without his intervention:

By 1901, the Lord God Almighty was "fed up" (see Isaiah 1:10-13) with Christian colleges, seminaries, and universities, and as J. Frank Norris and Billy Sunday tried to get things back together against hopeless odds, the Lord decided he would raise up a "joke on scholars." The joker's name was Peter Ruckman. …

As near as I can figure it, along about 1918-1920, the Lord said to Himself: “It’s time to stop this destruction of my book and turn this nation back to the truth before I give them the Sodom treatment.” He then looked “for a man” (Ezek. 22:30). … 

What the Lord needed was a "bookworm" who could digest 500 years of Christian scholarship, interpret it correctly, place it in its proper light in regard to the Holy Bible, and defend it against 5,000 to 10,000 apostate, conservative scholars who would rather die and go to hell than submit to God's authority. The pedagogy began November 19, 1921… (Bible Believers' Bulletin. Aug. 2010, pp. 2, 7)

Do you know of any one writer in church history since A.D. 70 who wrote over 10,000 pages of comments on the Holy Scripture while he was establishing New Testament churches, supporting missionaries, winning souls to Christ, and preaching on the street? Name one. One will do just fine. (Bible Believers' Bulletin. April 1996, p. 2)

In the following quote Ruckman refers to himself in the 3^rd person and compares himself with other ministers with whom he disagrees:

Of course, God gives him ten times as many souls, ten times as many ministers (over ninety have been ordained in our pastorate since 1960), ten times as much information from The Book, and ten times as many places to preach as He gives them… (Bible Believers' Bulletin. June 1995, p. 16)

I got in on things that have been denied to ninety percent of God’s ministers. (Ruckman, Peter. Bible Believers' Bulletin Reprint #7 Strictly Personal. 2004, Pensacola: Bible Baptist Bookstore, p. 270)

The Bible instructs us that we are not to compare and measure ourselves in the manner Ruckman does. For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. (2 Cor. 10:12)

Admittedly, amid all his grave faults, Ruckman does possess some qualities that are admirable. Among them are a strong work ethic, tenacity, studiousness, etc. It is apparent that Ruckman is talented, more so than average person. However, in evaluating whether someone is worthy of being a role model, one should not be awe-struck by how talented he may be, and all the opportunities he has had, and thereby blindly overlook all his faults and weakness and evaluate whether God is pleased with his life. When the Apostle Paul wrote about spiritual gifts, he introduced the topic with the following warning: For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. (Rom. 12:3)

As we documented in a similar article Is Ruckman Arrogant?, he repeatedly claims to have come up with many new teachings in the Bible, he frequently brags about his accomplishments, his intellect, his many followers, it was demonstrated that his speech exudes arrogance, and while decrying scholarship, Ruckman elevates himself as a scholar.

Even if Ruckman's teachings on the Bible were correct, unless he somehow were to be the only one proclaiming truth, his incredible arrogance alone as displayed in his speech should be enough to reject his ministry. Let us be mindful of Proverbs 8:13, which says The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.