Peter Ruckman Exposes False Prophets Robert Breaker And Roy Bell For Their False Gospel, Who Claims That You Don’t Need To Pray For Salvation

Popular YouTube preacher Robert Breaker has been exposed as a heretic by his former teacher and Bible instructor Peter S. Ruckman – who founded and preached at Pensacola Bible Baptist Church and the Pensacola Bible Institute (PBI) – because Breaker teaches that a person does not need to pray and confess to the Lord to receive salvation.

Breaker often hides behind Ruckman to try and justify his false teachings, to teach his false gospel and false plan of salvation, even though Ruckman has more than once rebuked Breaker for teaching what he does.

The WinePress has exposed some of Breaker’s false teachings before; one article detailing his false gospel and refuting it with scripture, where he says that repentance, prayer and confession, and the new birth are all “adding to salvation,” and that all a person needs to do is “trust the blood,” intellectually believing that Christ’s shedding of blood on the cross is all that’s needed. You can read more details about that here and some of the weird things he teaches:

Breaker is also indeed a false prophet, as I reported earlier this year, where he irrefutably changed scripture and factual events to assert that God was showing the world so-called “signs” in the stars that the rapture is imminent. That detailed report can also be read here.

Moreover, this video I produced years ago highlights even more of the obtuse and ridiculous claims that Breaker has made which include:

• That the Bible cites the gnostic “Book of Enoch”
• References other non-canonical gnostic texts to try and prove his date-setting charts
• Claims that the apostle Paul was a date-setter, and uses that justify “looking” for the rapture; but asserts you are a liar if you call him a date-setter
• Caught tweaking certain times and events to make his date-setting charts sound accurate and somehow ‘prophetic’
• Contradicts Jesus’ statements in Mathew 24:36 and Mark 13:32, and explicitly says that you CAN know the day and hour of when Jesus returns
• Says that people in the time of Jacob’s trouble (falsely so-called “the tribulation) can “possibly” chop off their right hand if they have taken the mark of the beast
• Says that you do not have to call upon God (prayer) to be saved
• Claims that the word ‘call’ really just means ‘believe from the heart,’ and does not mean “to ask”
• And more…

Ruckman Exposes Breaker

Fortunately for Breaker, Ruckman is dead and has no way of defending himself, thus making it all the more easier for Breaker to ride Ruckman’s coattails, use his name to get a following, and chop-up Ruckman’s teachings in order to sell his false gospel to an unsuspecting audience.

And yet Breaker will not tell his audience that Ruckman and his Board of Directors kicked Breaker out of Ruckman’s church building because of his heresies. You can read/download the letter to see for yourself.

Here is specifically what Ruckman wrote:

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Mr. Breaker,

I have neither the time nor the interest to help you into the “big time” after you failed as a missionary AND evangelist. We didn’t dump you as a missionary because of any problem over ANY translation in ANY language. WE dropped you because:

1. You lied about being a pastor at Garcon Point—you only—“supplied” a couple of times when the pastor was absent. You didn’t win a soul to Christ the entire time you “pastured” either in Honduras.
2. You did not really pastor anyone in Honduras. You did exactly what you are doing now—traveling back and forth to the States. THEN you were doing it to visit your girlfriend. You are now doing it to establish yourself as an authority on foreign translations—as a “saviour” to Hispanics.
3. You have always preached a lousy “Milton Gospel” established in your hometown, (Milton, Fla.)…

The $500 I gave to Park before you knew him, or met him, was after a conversation with him and a Mexican named Reyes. They told me they were interested in translating the AV into Spanish. Neither one did. Reyes turned out to be a pastor who had some people in his church who wanted to revise another revision of Valera. When Park sent you the letter that you mailed to me, he said, “Our positions” and “US.” He never mentioned his “buddy,” (you), the entire time I talked with him. YOU CONTACTED HIM AFTER I GAVE HIM THE MONEY. Typical Breaker “move”! If I had known YOU were involved in the translation, I would not have given him a dime.

No, sonny boy, I have never posed as an authority on any foreign translations. The interpreter uses Luther when I preach in Germany; the interpreter uses Valera when I preach in Mexico; the interpreter uses the version by Song Lee when I preach in Korea. I DON’T TELL ANY FOREGIN INTERPRETER WHAT BOOK HE USES; HE IS TRANSLATING FROM A KING JAMES SERMON FROM START TO FINISH.

Your position is so apparent that it is disgusting. There is nothing in anything you write that mentions LOST Hispanics or SOUL winning. Your MOTIVE of getting embroiled in an intellectual discussion over versions is ROTTEN. You are simply making a name for yourself by riding on the spirituality of “OTHERS.” In this case, Reyes, Park, Gómez, McArdle, and others. You, yourself, have never produced anything. Now you are trying to get publicity by attacking BOOKS SO YOU CAN SELL YOUR OWN BOOKS, that is, according to your books which you sent me.

Our Mission Board and Board of Trustees know EXACTLY what your “ministry” is; that’s why they dumped you. All of your publicity-mad little nobodies, (trying to hotdog it all the time), only want to be recognized as SPIRITUAL LEADERS. To do this, you are forced to associate yourself sooner or later with “[Pastor’s name].” You all have to hang on my shirt tail to get a hearing in the Body of Christ. Evidently, “[Pastor’s name]” must be in the spotlight since all of you are struggling to get into it. You’re getting connected with the wrong crew. Weldon Jones, (a life-long missionary to Hispanics), led more Hispanics to Jesus Christ in one YEAR with an “impure Valera” – THAN YOU DID IN 7 YEARS WHILE SPENDING YOUR TIME IN STOPPING THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE VALERA YOU DIDN’T LIKE.

Your “life work,” sonny boy, is your self-magnification of yourself as an authority on a foreign language.

I’ve never wasted half a sheet of paper, buddy, trying to prove that Diodoti, Valera, Luther, Visoiy of Michaelis were in error; nor that Olivetan or Erdosi or Song Lee should be corrected. I was always too busy training young men as Bible believing, street preaching, soul winners, (over 400 of them), ordaining them, (over 150 of them), and sending them out as missionaries, (54 of them), to preach in 17 different foreign languages; while I was preaching in 91 prisons, where I have seen more grown men genuinely converted in A YEAR as you, or Park ,or Reyes, McVey have in seen in ten years.

In the future, send all of your mail to the head of the Bookstore, ([name left out]). I don’t have time to waste with “hot-doggers”- WHOSE MOTIVES ARE NOT TO GET ANYONE SAVED; IT IS TO MAKE A GOOD INCOME FOR THEMSELVES BY ESTABLISHING THEMSELVES AS AUTHORITIES WHO CAN CHALLENGE [Pastor’s name]. You all have to hang on my shirt tail. Wrong league, stupid. You’re not in my league, nor are your “buddies.” You are in “THE SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY LEAGUE; STAY THERE!

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There are a number of things there worth discussing, but the main thing I want to hone in on is Ruckman’s accusation that Breaker “preaches a lousy ‘Milton Gospel.'” So the next time Breaker wants to showboat clips of Ruckman purported to be teaching what Breaker is teaching, remember what Ruckman wrote rebuking Breaker.

Breaker, to be clear, has adamantly said for years that praying for salvation, as clearly described in Romans 10:8-13, is a work; and he will play all these semantics and word games to say that “call” and “calling from the heart” actually means to “believe” in the heart, and that if there is to be any prayer, it is at the most after a person receives salvation and the sinner thanks God for it. Breaker has video after video saying this, so nothing I have said is hyperbole.

This, of course, is not at all what that passage says. The verses mean what they mean, and the common man has no problem understanding this verbiage.

Romans 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; [9] That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. [11] For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. [12] For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. [13] For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Now, again, Ruckman did not teach what Breaker taught when it came to that passage. Ruckman openly warned about heretics such as Breaker and a growing number of so-called Baptists who are teaching that praying to God for salvation and asking for salvation is a false gospel and will damn people to hell.

Ruckman wrote in his commentary on book of Romans (pages 241-242 PDF, emphasis his, underling mine):

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When the Bible says, “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness” (vs. 10), that’s what it means. You go beyond the bare facts of the Gospel and make them yours personally so that you are totally relying on what Jesus Christ did for you to get to Heaven and out of Hell.

Verse 10, “And with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Jesus said, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh” (Matt. 12:34). The heart and the mouth, spiritually, are connected. You talk about the things you love. Jesus continued on in Matthew 12:35 to say, “A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things.”

Now, there are two things that come up at this point. The first is the place of prayer in salvation. It is obvious that the mere act of praying itself saves no one. In Luke 18:10–14, two men go to pray at the temple, and that story ends with one man saved and the other man lost. Cornelius prayed on a regular basis (Acts 10:2), and God honored his prayers (Acts 10:4). But Cornelius did not get saved until he heard Peter preach (Acts 10:34–43) and he believed on Christ (Acts 10:43–47). So prayer in and of itself doesn’t save a man.

Realizing this, a new group of heretics (in this case, Bible-believing Baptists) have come up saying that if a man prays to get saved (or more specifically prays the sinner’s prayer), then he is lost. The idea behind this is that prayer is a work, and a man isn’t saved by works (Eph. 2:8–9). So all a man need do is assent to the fact that Christ died for him and thank God for having already forgiven his sins.

Of course, there are all kinds of things wrong with that erroneous teaching; not the least of which is that giving thanks to God for having already saved you is a prayer. Now, brethren, a prayer is a prayer whether you ask God to save you or you thank God for saving you. If prayer can’t save you because it is a work, then for God’s sake (as well as your own) don’t thank God for saving you. You would be mixing works with your faith. Then you wouldn’t be saved.

That is the kind of nonsense being spread around independent, fundamental, Bible-believing circles these days. In the community where I pastor, it is being put out by a radio station whose call letters are WTGF. That station uses the Fundamental Broadcasting Network as a lure to get Christians to listen to the local announcer talk them out of their salvation.

That false doctrine is the result of pastors running into a bunch of shallow converts who have never grown in their Christian lives and are living like the world. Being unable, or unwilling, to get those folks back into church under the preaching and teaching of the word of God, and not seeing many people saved under their ministries, those pastors turn on their congregations and try to “retread” them so that they can see some “results.”

That is not sound doctrine, it is not evangelizing the lost, and it is not discipling those who have believed. It is confusing a bunch of sheep to prove that the Holy Spirit is working in a church when He isn’t.

That doctrine destroys the assurance that a Christian should have about his salvation. After all, he thought he was saved before because he had trusted Christ, but the preacher convinced him that he had trusted Christ the wrong way. Well, if it can happen once, it can happen again. So the questions begin to flood into the “retread’s” mind: “What if I didn’t believe enough?” “What if I didn’t repent enough?” “What if I doubt my salvation, even just a little”? People in those kinds of churches end up getting saved three and four times. The only difference between a church like that and the “Brownsville Revival” is that the “Brownsville Revival” found a way to shovel the retreads through faster so they could report “over a million saved.

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So it is clear what Ruckman thought of what the likes of Breaker are telling people in regard to Romans 10 and prayer for salvation. But it goes beyond that: Ruckman actually named Breaker by name in an audio recording exposing Breaker for teaching this heresy.

Ruckman’s remarks came during his live audio commentary series on 1, 2, 3 John and Jude, track 3. Listen for yourself:

So, not only is what Breaker is teaching false and heretical, and sending people to hell with this false gospel, even Ruckman himself named Breaker by name and said that what Breaker teaches are absolute lies!

But Breaker is not the only one teaching this. For example, Roy Bell of Old School Bible Baptist Ministries is one of those people. Bell has been a staunch advocate for false teacher and pervert Geoffrey Grider of Now The End Begins. You can read about his support for Grider here: Exclusive: Geoffrey Grider Of Now The End Begins’ Illegitimate Daughter Speaks Out After Decades Of Neglect, As Pastors Run To Defend Him

Bell is also friends with Breaker as well.

Bell deploys similar tactics to confuse the listener into believing that a man does not need to take Romans 10:8-13 literally, and instead changes the definitions to erase prayer from the equation. He, just as Breaker will do, is he divorces that confession and call from each other, and says that confession comes after God already saves someone; and that “call” really just means to “believe in the heart,” and call does not mean ‘call,’ and has nothing to do with prayer and opening your mouth.

Just as Breaker does, Bell will then cite 2 Timothy 2:22 – a passage written to saved people and is for Christian conduct and fellowship – which says, “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” -And what Breaker and Bell will do is they will take that and claim that the call is just belief in your heart.

Bell, similarly to Breaker, will pose doubting questions (Colossians 2:8) such as, “If you had to say something, mute people couldn’t get to heaven.” By posing subtle propositions such as this, it is designed to trick the individual into conceding that the text should not be taken as dogmatically as it is written, and exceptions can be made in certain instances; and if God makes exceptions there then who’s to say he can’t make exceptions in other areas? This is the subtly of the serpent at work (2 Corinthians 11:3-4, 13-15).

Don’t just take my word for it, listen to Bell say it in a video he did titled, “A SILLY THING TO FUSS ABOUT!”

And there you have it. This is the very thing that Ruckman was warning about in his commentary on the book of Romans, and what he exposed Breaker before his whole congregation for teaching this nonsense.

Years ago I wrote a book titled “The Romans 10 Controversy,” and it covers salvation, repentance, and all these little arguments people like Breaker and Bell will use to deceive people into thinking prayer and calling on the name of the Lord with the MOUTH is not necessary for salvation. So, I am VERY familiar with how these people will spin the truth.

It is not hard to debunk their arguments at all. For starters, as Ruckman pointed out, thanking God and confessing afterwards is still done in prayer; and I would take it a step farther and ask the question, then why pray at all? Seriously, if passages like 2 Timothy 2:22 are meant to prove that ‘call’ is just believing in the heart and God “hears” that “cry,” then why ever pray, what’s the point? You see how absurd this whole thing is?

Normally we would not have to define terms like this, but since it’s 2024 and we live in clown world now, allow me to define the text for you and erase any confusion.

For starters, Romans 10 begins the chapter by stating: “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.” You see that? Right there in the opening verse the context has been established: heart’s desire and prayer – both, they both happen at the same time! And then later in verse 20 it says, “But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.” Again, Paul references the prophecy that God would turn to the Gentiles for salvation, and those lost Gentiles who did not seek the Lord, who did not ask of him then are now be given that opportunity. The beginning, middle, and end of Romans 10 deals with prayer.

Furthermore, if you want a clear definition of what ‘call’ means in relation to the Lord and prayer then you hear you go:

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. [12] Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. [13] And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

1 Samuel 1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD. [10] And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore. [11] And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head. [12] And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth. [13] Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. [14] And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee. [15] And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD. [16] Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto. [17] Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

And there you have it, it’s not hard to understand at all; and should people like Bell want to confuse you with this philosophical ruse about mute people then feel free to show them 1 Samuel 1:12-13. These people are PURPOSEFULLY sowing lies and deceit; which allows these false teachers to brag on about the people they “led to the Lord.”

James 3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. [16] For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. [17] But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. [18] And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

That’s all this is: devilish confusion and meant to cause discord, while confusing those that are saved to ruin their walks with the Lord, and make false converts out of people so they can balloon their conversion rates. It’s sick.

And Bell even takes it a step further and implicates in another video that suggests people don’t even have to know that Jesus Christ is God to be saved, as he goes on this rant about how certain tracts and witnessing tools don’t mention the deity of Christ in them, and so therefore insinuates that people don’t need to know that Jesus Christ is God Almighty, and toys the line with even knowing a basic knowledge of the death for sins, burial, and ressurrection. Some people called him out in the comment section and provided scripture that proves people obviously must know this to be saved, and then Bell backtracked it by saying he only meant the ultra-doctrinal specifics and stuff like the Trinity.

And then you see the scammy tactics this guy uses when he “witnesses” to people, where on occasion he has handed cookies with his tracts on college campuses. “Passing out homemade cookies with one of my tracts at University of Wisconsin,” Bell said in a post. Let me guess, he’s led “many to Christ” doing that, right?

Their gospel is nothing more than the gospel of mental ascent. They learn and hear some facts in the Bible, and instead of humbling themselves and crying out to God in repentance, they’d mock that and try to confuse those that are saved into ruining their walks, and be turned into “retreads,” as Ruckman referred to them as.

2 Corinthians 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; [2] But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. [3] But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: [4] In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. [5] For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. [6] For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

In short, these men are heretics. And while I have my issues with Ruckman on certain issues, I felt it was worth exposing how these heretics, who are preaching a false gospel and damning untold thousands to hell with their lies, will hide behind the veneer of Ruckman when Ruckman openly calls these types of people heretics. Mark and avoid them (Romans 16:17-18).

SEE: Compromise And Condoning Sin – Why I No Longer Recommend Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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