Puritans<3

1.Puritans believe that all are born into sin, because of Adam and Eve eating the fruit from the garden. They also believe that God only saves those who he chooses to save, meaning that if you are living right by God and never do any wrong then God has given you salvation. Those who are chosen by God will go and preach his word. If you are to disobey any of God's grace then you are going against his will- which is totally in moral to Puritans.

2. In the Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God, the Puritans had beliefs that we were all sinners in some way. In the movie at the beginning there were quotes about how God had chosen one’s of us who would be safe. They felt as if we didn’t have any good in us. I feel that these people are the real sinners who are looking down on us. The Puritan’s are the ones who should seriously rethink their way of life.Then there were the ministers who preached about all of our sins and told stories of us going to hell. In the movie the minister talked about us being wrath, and that God would drop us into hell in any minute. I didn't agree with what he was saying. God isn't just holding us in the palm of his hand waiting to drop us in fire at any point. They make it seem like whenever we get on God's nerves then he'll just drop us and not think twice because we don't matter. They lived life’s that were not suitable for anyone to live, but yet they judged others. The Puritan’s were big fakes in my opinion.Since they always talked about we were chosen, in the Plymouth Plantation tells the Governor died of an unknown reason. It speaks of him complaining about his head the few days before he died, but the point is he just got sick and died. With that happening I think that The Puritan’s way of believing in things was not true and they should think of their way of living. To the Puritans with the Governor dying, he may had did something wrong to cause him a sin so God was punishing him by taking his life. In the paragraph that I read, it told that the Governor’s death caused a big pain in many of the people’s life, but the Puritans thought that God just chose him to be the next thrown into the pit of hell.Shortly after the death of the Governor his wife died, because she was weak and couldn’t take his leaving her. The Puritan’s lifestyle may have had everyone thinking that when we died it was because we were being punished because we were sinners. I don’t like any of the signs that the Puritans put out to others. They felt as if they were left here to remind us all of our sins. The Puritans were the number one sinners in my point of view.

3.Total Depravity in the Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God is said that through Adam and Eve we all fall sinners. Meaning that because of their sins we suffer from them also. This is the concept of an Original Sin. Since this is the original sin for all humans, we all must pay for it. The Puritans didn’t think that we were perfect in any way.In the movie, Jonathan Edwards quotes “we are all sinners, being held over the pit of hell by god, and can be dropped at any time. “ We can all be dropped into hell at anytime because of the sin that Adam and Eve committed and therefore we have to pay for that also. With him stating his quote it seems as if he’s saying that we’re all going to hell. Total depravity is affecting us all.Unconditional Election is saying that God “saves” those he wishes- only a few are selected for salvation. This is an example in William Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation. This is a meaning that’s saying God only chose a few of us to be saved and the rest of us are sinners. In this belief not all of us are going to go to heaven but rather hell. This was strongly believed by the Puritans.In a part of the Plymouth Plantation that I read, I found an example of unconditional election. This is what was said “Governor Mr. John Carver, who was working out in a field when he became sick, he complained greatly of his head hurting and he lay down and within a few hours he was dead.” In this example it would mean that he wasn’t one of God’s chosen few for salvation, but maybe he did something wrong to be a sinner and he died. Even though this isn’t a proven fact, this is what the Puritan’s would have believed. Just because the Governor died he wasn’t one of the perfect one’s that was saved.