Mr. Rutz has a history of playing fast and loose with the facts.
In his book "Open Church" he claimed that historically the Christian celebration of the Eucharist was based on the feeding of the 5,000 and not on the Last Supper.
When someone is capable of telling whoppers like that, I become skeptical.
Would like to see his historical claims for that. Sounds far fetched to me.
You may know him better than I.
But I've seen enough overseas to believe the bulk of what he says. The Chinese church is very much as he describes it.
Including with the resurrections.