Terry Pruitt's Blog

The movie "The Book of Eli" came on TV not too long ago. I was surprised by some of the ending plot and if you have not seen the movie you probably want quite reading this. SPOILER ALERT In the movie there are three types of people who respond to the Bible. One represents those who use the Bible for personal power and gain. There is a town leader; part mayor and all mob boss. He wants a copy of the Bible to be able to use the words there in to coerce those who are small in intellect to do as he says. There is second type of person who uses the Bible as a part of their personal quest and voyage in life. Eli is a wander; part super hero and part high plains drifter. He reads the Bible every day. He knows his own faults but also knows he is to live by the Bible. This is the type of Bible reader I want to be; minus gun fights, karate moves, and swordsmanship. Lastly there is the fellow in Alcatraz Island who is storing up the knowledge ...

A repost with expanded topics!                 Reformed Theology (Five Point Calvinist) - God is the author of salvation.   He moves and acts in ways that are a mystery to us.   He saves us without merit on our own.   We cannot save ourselves.                    Regulative Principle in Family Life, Church Government, Worship, and Ethics - God governs our practices as well as our teachings.                    Intellectually Engaged - Faith is coherent.                    Historical-Grammatical method of Hermeneutics - The historical - grammatical method is a Christian hermeneutical method that strives to discover the Biblical au...

Two verses that seem to give an order contrary to the ordo salutis : Acts 16:31 ESV Acts 16:31 And they said, "Believe (aorist imperative) in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved (future indicative), you and your household." (Act 16:31 ESV) This seems to give the sequence of belief and then salvation . I see that salvation here is not the immediate gift of regeneration but a future state of ultimate salvation. The mystery of God working in our heart is not discussed but the outward sequence as we experience them. The man was asking about the disaster falling on him of a prison break, the salvation was not only the immediate salvation from the state suffering retribution of failure to fulfill his duties but an ultimate eschatological salvation. ESV Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, "Repent (aorist imperative) and be baptized (aorist imperative) every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will...