Robert Breaker’s The Unbroken Chain of Salvation

“My New Book is Now Out!”

Breaker says he gives “many, many, many quotes” from well-known preachers and from Independent Baptist preachers. He encourages viewers to take the book to their pastors to see “whether or not they are preaching the true message of salvation.” Whatever one thinks of that goal, it made the book’s accuracy a practical matter: readers were being asked to measure their pastors against it.

“Do All Baptists Preach Faith in the Blood?”

Breaker says that asking Jesus into your heart or praying for salvation comes from Unitarianism and Universalism. Two things are worth checking.

Church historian Thomas Kidd, in “‘Ask Jesus into Your Heart’: A History of the Sinner’s Prayer” (The Gospel Coalition), traces that language to Puritan and evangelical roots, not Unitarian or Universalist ones. I checked his research and it holds up.

Early Christian writers describe asking and praying to God for salvation. One example:

“Jonah proclaimed destruction to the Ninevites; but they, repenting of their sins, propitiated God by prayer, and obtained salvation, although they were aliens of God.”

Clement of Rome, 1 Clement 7, c. 96–97 A.D.

“Will You Have Any Rewards in Heaven?”

Breaker ties heavenly rewards to his view of salvation and repeatedly tells viewers to buy the book.

“Faith in the Blood has been Preached for 2000 Years Now!!!”

Breaker holds up a proof copy, says he has ordered 10 copies, and reports that the book has sold 325 copies, adding that this matches Romans 3:25. This matters later: it shows he checks his sales numbers. Viewers, he says, are giving the book to relatives and to pastors.

That same day he posted “Is This the Worst Gospel Tract Ever?” which also links the book in its description.

“Are you Deceived by Another Gospel?”

Breaker reads from notes in an 1800s family Bible that a viewer sent him. I can’t find those notes online, and there is no way to verify what the Bible says beyond Breaker’s word. (I discuss this in Part 4 of my series Robert Breaker’s Salvation Theology Is a Modern Doctrine.)

“Should Have Added This To My New Book!!!”

Breaker sings two hymns about the blood as further historical support.

“Saved by Your Prayer?”

Breaker presents 52 quotes from historical figures said to deny the sinner’s prayer. As far as I can tell, only one of the 52 is real, and it has been modified; the other 51 trace back only to Breaker. They share a pattern: deny the sinner’s prayer, affirm the blood. Meaning, they are also likely AI-generated quotes.

Tony publishes a warning

“Robert Breaker book: The Unbroken Chain of Salvation by Faith in the Blood: WARNING!” goes through part of Chapter 8.

“Never Stop Preaching Faith in the Blood!!!”

In this video, which links the book in its description, Breaker responds to critics: “I’m not making these up… These books are out there. You can find them.” He says he has 35 pages of Dr. Ruckman quotes about the blood on his RRB3 site. I couldn’t find 35 pages. What I did find is a page quoting Ruckman’s The Simplicity of Salvation (1987).

However, at the end of the book, Dr. Ruckman says this: “If you don’t know that, it’s because you are lost.” The same book ends with an invitation to pray:

“Wherever you are, bow your head and pray a simple prayer something like this: ‘Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner, and unless you save me, I am lost forever. I now come to you, the best way I know how, and ask you to save me.’”

Peter S. Ruckman, The Simplicity of Salvation (1987)

See the quote mining.

“True Baptists Preach Faith in the Blood!!!”

Breaker reads commentaries I cover in Parts 2 and 3 of my series against his livestream "Faith in the Blood is not a modern doctrine". One is from Hyde Park Publishers, whose church explicitly supports the sinner’s prayer and tells readers to pray one to be saved. At the end he holds up a physical copy of The Unbroken Chain and says anyone not preaching the blood atonement is “preaching another gospel.”

“DON’T LET THE DEVIL WIN! Walkin and A-Talking”

The thumbnail appears to be AI-generated: Breaker looks on while a devil figure is trampled by a foot belonging to Jesus. The devil resembles a television fisherman (and far more popular) who shares my name, Tyler McLaughlin of Wicked Tuna. Breaker said on June 2 that he uses AI for thumbnails.