LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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God will exact his judgment over sinners.
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God has already chosen who would be saved.
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God has complete and total control.
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God and people have a joint agreement.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Supralapsarianism is the doctrine that God’s decree of predestination for salvation and reprobation logically precedes his preordination of the human race’s fall into sin. That is, God decided to save, and to damn; he then determined the means by which that would be made possible.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Puritans believed God had chosen a few people, “the elect, ” for salvation. The rest of humanity was condemned to eternal damnation. But no one really knew if he or she was saved or damned; Puritans lived in a constant state of spiritual anxiety, searching for signs of God’s favor or anger.
Detailed explanation-3: -The doctrine of predestination kept all Puritans constantly working to do good in this life to be chosen for the next eternal one. God had already chosen who would be in heaven or hell, and each believer had no way of knowing which group they were in.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Pilgrims believed that before the foundation of the world, God predestined to make the world, man, and all things. He also predestined, at that time, who would be saved, and who would be damned. Only those God elected would receive God’s grace, and would have faith.