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1 | 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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2 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | Reformer Joe | 35813 | ||
You have a very misinformed view of the preaching of Jonathan Edwards. I know that such a skewed perspective is due to the errors of the writers of the textbooks you read in high school, but the fact is that Jonathan Edwards preached the whole counsel of God like few others have before him or after him. I would suggest that you take some time to read some of his works (starting with the _Religious Affections_) and see how much he uses terms like "sweetness" and "mercy" and "grace." He even wrote a whole treatise on grace. Please do not believe the standard bit on the Puritans. There is a great deal of flat-out wrong information about them, their theology, and their lifestyle. Try reading what they actually wrote, and you will be amazed at their grasp of the grace and goodness of God, as well as the horrific nature of our sin against a holy God. And Edwards was 18th-century, by the way. --Joe! |
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3 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | srbaegon | 35816 | ||
Hi Joe, Well put. I had bought into the misrepresentations and characterizations of Puritans until I read their works for myself. Was I ever surprised?! Steve |
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