Thursday, January 11, 2007

puritans

The Puritans belived in god very strongly they believed just like adam and eve everybody is born in the world sinful, they also believed god saves some people but only a few are selected for salvation,they believed jesus died for some but i believe he died for all not for some.The Puritans was people who believed in certain religious ways they had their own belief in what god was and what god could do they thought that their beliefs was the only beliefs and that they were right. I think the purtains were people who was afraid of god so they wanted everybody else to feel that god was a angry god, i think most of their beliefs were wrong because god died for all sins not for some they believed in a certain religion about god and though that if he believed that everybody should believe what they thought because they were always right.



The Puritain text were written like they once knew god and he told them all of these things that are written in their text for ex:
The belief that God's intentions are present in human action and in natural phenomenon. Failure to understand these intentions are human limitations. I think the Puritains lived their lives trying to tell people who jesus was and what jesus did they also believed that god was amyserious god because he was separate from the world, they thought that god should be made more known to the universe because he is not getting enough credit for his actions and that evrybody should glorify god because he is over all people. Johnathan Edwards a minister was the first to preach the sermon of "Sinners hands of an angry god" because of the presentation most of the audience was left crying he had to ask the audience to quiet down so he could finish his sermon because it was and outroar about what he was preaching about.

Three examples of sinners in the hands of an angry god are, perseverance, limited atonement, and unconditional election.The Puritans wrote in plain style which means they didn't care how you took it or how it made you feel they just spoke their minds, the puritans tried to scare majority of the people by telling them that once they died everybody was gonna go to hell because god was a angry god.

Total Depravity- -
"Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the fast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element".through Adam and Eve's fall, every person is born sinful - concept of Original Sin. this senteance means that once you are born into the world u haven't committed any sins.



Unconditional Election-God "saves" those he wishes - only a few are selected for salvation.
"The manifold and continual experience of the world in all ages, shows this is no evidence, that a man is not on the very brink of eternity, and that the next step will not be into another world." it means that god saves some not all but that is not true because if you are willng to give your life to the lord then he will accept it.

Limited Atonement-
"It is no security to wicked men for one moment, that there are no visible means of death at hand. It is no security to a natural man, that he is now in health, and that he does not see which way he should now immediately go out of the world by any accident, and that there is no visible danger in any respect in his circumstances" Jesus died for the chosen only, not for everyone
that is not true because jesus died for everybody' sins not just for some.

Plain style text is text that the puritains wrote in meaning that they said things to meake you afraid of god and they didn't care how you took it or how it made you feel it means that they didn't want you to get any pleasure out of reading what tehy wrote they just wanted you to think god, was a angry god. The puritains believed that whatever they said was right they believed in one religion and that everybody else should believe in that religion to or they wouldn't be accepted by god.

3 comments:

D a n a said...

You are doing pretty good for number one.

You need to look at number two once more and provide responses to both the Puritan texts.

For number three, you should provide direct evidence from the texts to support how you have identified the Puritan beliefs from my post.

You have some work to do here. Leave me another comment when you have finished.

D a n a said...

I'm still not seeing any changes.

D a n a said...

Much better. You are ready to move on.