I was absolutely horrified when I read Edwards sermon. He used nothing but scare tactics to gain believers in God. When in the Bible it say you must except God. Being scared and acceptance is very different. So that eaves the question of, do the people listening and support his way are really believers or just scared not to be?
I have hear that when God was first introduced he was said to be vengeful but in was later changed so people would nor fear him.
I can not imagine god danging me of the pits of hell as said in the sermon.
As I mentioned in our Pronto discussion, I experienced the 'wrath of God' when I went to the Quaker Yearly Meetings with my grandmother and great-grandmother. Of course I was quite small, under the age of 10 for sure, and I was quite impressionable. I was scared to death that something bad was going to happen to me if I did anything wrong and God caught me. Now the Quakers are not so much 'fire and brimstone' and my feelings and beliefs have changed quite a bit. Of course I haven't been in a Quaker (or Friends) church for many years either......
ReplyDeleteI didn't like his sermon at all because of the scare tactics. I do not like to think of God as being angry or spiteful! If I had been sitting there listening to it I would have been offended and would have never gone back to that church! It also would have probably scared my kids to death! I do not want them to fear God, I want them to do good out of the desire to please, not so that they don't get dropped into the firey pits of Hell.
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