LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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when they eventually become wiser than they are now
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when they experience God’s grace
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when they find themselves in Hell
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when they are born again
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Detailed explanation-1: -What does Edwards think is true of the members of his congregation in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"? They are all church supporters.
Detailed explanation-2: -Because of His wrath and anger for these people, “they have no refuge, nothing to take hold of.” In short, the unbaptized people have no salvation from God’s wrath and He could just let them fall at anytime He wanted to simply let go. Edwards continues with the people that are “out of Christ".
Detailed explanation-3: -Edwards’s aim was to teach his listeners about the horrors of Hell, the dangers of sin, and the terrors of being lost. Edwards described the position of those who do not follow Christ’s urgent call to receive forgiveness.
Detailed explanation-4: -Edwards believed that indeterminism is incompatible with our dependence on God and hence with his sovereignty. If our responses to God’s grace are contra-causally free, then our salvation depends partly on us and God’s sovereignty isn’t “absolute and universal.” Freedom of the Will defends theological determinism.