Thursday, September 23, 2010

sinners in a hand of an angry god

This passage is really just a sermon by jonathan edwards and he is just talking about how god is just torturing us because he regrets creating human beings. He thinks he knows all about god and his intentions and he makes that very clear. this is also what children hear every Sunday so their minds may be really special.
He first of all talks about how he has his hand blocking a lot of chaos and any time he can just lift up his hand and chaos will just take you over. I think that in a way this could be true if you look at it in that way. But in my opinion its not true. He seems to just be looking at how nice people get hurt randomly.
Also, the severity of the punishment is really severe. For example, he talks about how fire, water, and arrows attack you and you suffer until dying. Some people do die suffering but life isn't that bad. He makes it seem like if you make one slip up you'll die a horrible, suffering death which is most of the time not true because the god I know forgives people for their sins.
He thinks that life is really like this and in my opinion its not true. Some people may have died horrible deaths but it hasn't happened very often. Its really just been in disasters that's cause so many deaths and horrible injuries. So I think this man is really strange or he has had a really horrible life.

1 comment:

  1. The Puritans believed that one slip was enough to open the gates of God's wrath, sending the sinner to eternal damnation. Good ideas.

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