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1 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | Hank | 35694 | ||
Tim, blessings to you, bon ami, bon frere! Jonathan Edwards' most famous sermon perhaps was "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." How would a sermon like that fly in most church houses today? Would the "unfearful" parishioners throw the sermon out the nearest window and the preacher out the back door? We have domesticated God. We have taken away His wrath and judgment and turned Him into that Great Loving Fuzzy-wuzzy Teddy Bear of the Skies. We the faithful have done this. Secular humanism has done more. It ignores God as if He had been but a chalk image on a blackboard that was easily removed by one swipe of a felt eraser. It is much in the vanguard today to commit to the ideological funny farm any notion that the whole duty of man is to fear God and keep His commandments. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | wak | 35800 | ||
Hank I agree with your overall point ... balance is needed... but I also think of the 80/20 rule. My sense is that the average preachers of Edward's time were preaching 80 percent fear, don't(s) and sin and 20 percent Love, do's and grace. Today's preachers have reverse that, 80 percent love, etc. and 20 percent fear, etc. Needless to say, God's message needs to be balance. but if I had to pick in the "real world" (please,don't recite the ideal) I'll take the typical 2002 preacher over the typical 19th century preacher. I guess I'm even more wary of nostalgia " the good old days", than I am of the baby boomer mentality. |
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3 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | RElderCascade | 35802 | ||
May I interject a direct question here.. How many hours (or please specify how many pages) you have read from Edwards? | ||||||
4 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | wak | 35846 | ||
RElder I have never studied Edwards... not a single second... he wasn't on the GED. Never heard of him Since I answered your direct question, you to have answer mine: What does phenomenological mean? |
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5 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | RElderCascade | 35888 | ||
I would recommend Jonathan Edwards he is truly the finest theologian ever produced on American soil. I don't believe you have never heard of him -- that must have been a slip (error) for you to write that you have never heard of him. Now, regarding my earlier sentence; "Genesis is not written in a phenomonological style". When I wrote that I didn't have time to do my best effort so I made a mistake and made up a word. I hope upon a more careful consideration of it in the context in which I wrote it you might be able to get a clearer picture of my intended meaning. May I ask you to write back with a summary of what that "made up word" meant to the author in its context? We'll dialog about it. |
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6 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | Reformer Joe | 35891 | ||
I wholeheartedly agree. Most who read Edwards would also contend that he was one of the finest INTELLECTS produced on American soil. Even many non-Christians recognize this, and are dismayed that such a brilliant man "wasted his talents" on such God-centered pursuits. I am glad to have you aboard the forum! --Joe! |
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7 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | RElderCascade | 35913 | ||
Edwards treatise on the freedom of the will is one of those quality pieces that makes so much sense and is so useful that it is something I wish I would read once a year. One of the truly unique things about it is how masterfully he fit the real personhood and real choices of the real human condition into the REAL place that man is placed under the sovereign authority of God..oh thank God for the gifted wonderful godly men he has given the church. | ||||||