I feel that preaching about an angry God would just get old after a time and in my mind it would not be very motivating, but everyone is different.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Jonathan Edwards
Even though Edwards was trying to evoke emotion out of his congregations, I feel that using the idea of "An Angry God" was a little overboard. I do not think it is right to scare someone into doing something, or scaring them to be better Christians. There are many ways to get people to be better Christians or to at least think about how they are living their lives instead of scaring them out of their wits. I am sure that this approach did have some success but I personally would not enjoy having someone preach to me about hell and brimestone all the time and how I would be going to hell if I were to make a mistake, which is only human.
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I definitely see where you are coming from. I just liked the idea of a pastor who just puts it all out there and does not feel the need to make everything about mercy and forgiveness. I do think though that the hell and brimstone type preaching would get old pretty quickly.
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