I was emailed this link by an Evangelical Vicar I used to know. It is the sermon oif Jonathan Edwards from 1741 and he sent it as a way scaring me back to his church and also a way of changing me. He asked me to particularly pay attention to this part: What do you think? Is stil still what people believe about God? Is this belief still even relevant to us today? http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/sermons.sinners.html
I think that it is a mans word of his interpretation about how God feels. Which from what I can tell, is way, way off from the truth.
I am sure some people believe like that. Jack chick seems to believe in a god who finds sadist pleasure in throwing people into eternal damnation. I believe in a God who is all just, but also merciful who would go beyond lengths to have all of his children be with him
I'd say it's the product of a sick mind. And represents an extremely undeveloped and un-enlightened view of the divine. It's really about projecting the very worse human qualities onto God.
Apparently it's what the Vicar believes, and it's what some Calvinists and fundamentalists still believe. Jonathan Edwards was the last of the Puritan preachers of the Massachusetts Bay colony, and this is the prototypical "hellfire and damnation" sermon. If this is what the church you used to belong to believes, be thankful you left! There are lots of churches you could belong to that don't use scare tactics and stress the kindness of a loving God.
