Saturday, February 28, 2009

How does Jonathan Edward challenge one's self?

One way
in which Edwards can be seen as issuing
a challenge to the individual that they can place on
themselves is in seeking
to move closer to God.  Edwards does not make any distinctions.  He
makes it
fairly clear that all human beings are in some level of guilt in terms of how they
have
turned from the divine.  Edwards lumps all human beings into a realm
where each individual has
to make a clear spiritual choice to stop what has
happened and embrace a new vision of what
should be happening in their lives:
 

All wicked men's
pains
and contrivance which they use to escape hell, while they
continue...


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