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Originally Posted by zeek
But, appeals to fear and threats of negative labeling are not logical bases for believing anything.
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What's logic got to do with it? It sure worked for Jonathan Edwards, who kicked off The First Great Awakening, with his famous sermon, "
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.":
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The Bow of God’s Wrath is bent, and the Arrow
made ready on the String, and Justice bends the
Arrow at your Heart, and strains the Bow, and it is
nothing but the meer Pleasure of God, and that of
an angry God, without any Promise or Obligation
at all, that keeps the Arrow one Moment from being
made drunk with your Blood.
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