The Puritans

In the sinners in the hand of an angry god they had a few disturbing points. They had different belief's on the things that we believe to be true today. A lot of what they said was correct, but much of it was also not true. In these next few paragraphs I will explain to you the parts that I find to be true and also the parts I do not believe to be true.

In the beginning they said that god only chose a few people to be saved by his grace, and the rest would be subject to his wrath. They believe "that all men are held over the pit of hell by Gods hand". I find this not to be true because anybody who really wants this can have it. God doesn't choose a few people to have his grace it is free to anyone who wants it. Their beliefs on this was very misleading and in many ways wrong.

They also stated that Jesus only died for a select group of people. They state that "Jesus died for the chosen only, not for everyone." I find this to be wrong because the bible states that he died for all sinners and anyone who believes this has been saved from the wrath of god, because they are a new person spiritually, and should live as if they were. This is another subject that I find to believe false.

Those are two points on what I bbelieved were wrong about what they said, but there is one main part that is all the way true. That is that all men are born into sin because of "Adam and Eve's sin they committed in the beginning of time." This is true based on the facts found in the bible on this main topic. All men are born into sin and will be until they accept Jesus as their savior. This is done by accepting him into your life. Going back to the previous paragraph on how he died for a select few making it incorrect.

Although the puritans had a strong base of religion they believed some things that I find to be wrong, and as time and people moved on they started to stray away from this belief and developed a new one which is what we know as modern day Christianity.