Peter Sturges Ruckman is an Independent Baptist

Independent Baptist

Independent Baptist churches are Christian churches generally holding to conservative Baptist beliefs. They are characterized by being independent from the authority of denominations or similar bodies. Members of such churches comprised three percent of the United States adult population according...

 pastor

Pastor

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, teacher, writer, and founder of Pensacola Bible Institute, an unaccredited school in Pensacola, Florida (not to be confused with Pensacola Christian College

Pensacola Christian College

Pensacola Christian College is an unaccredited fundamentalist, Independent Baptist college in Pensacola, Florida, USA, founded in 1974 by Arlin Horton. The college is actively pursuing accreditation, and as of 7 November 2011 had been awarded candidate status with Transnational Association of...

). Ruckman is best known for his assertion that the King James Version constitutes "advanced revelation" and is the final, preserved word of God for English

English language

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 speakers.
A native of Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington, Delaware

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, Peter Ruckman is a son of Colonel John Hamilton Ruckman (1888–1966) and a grandson of General John Wilson Ruckman

John Wilson Ruckman

-Early life:Ruckman was born at Deers, Illinois, a flag-station just southeast of the University of Illinois. Biographies, however, usually list his place of birth as Sidney, Illinois . His parents, Thomas and Mary O'Brien Ruckman, were farmers. His uncles, John W...

 (1858–1921).