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NASB | 1 Peter 1:17 ¶ If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 1:17 ¶ If you address as Father, the One who impartially judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in [reverent] fear [of Him] and with profound respect for Him throughout the time of your stay on earth. |
Subject: Fear God! |
Bible Note: 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! |