The Puritans

1. Briefly summarize the Puritans' beliefs. This should be a paragraph or two.


The Puritans believe that everybody was sinners because of Adam and Eve. They also believed that God died for a select few people and not for eveybody. Some people walked around thinking that they was chosen just because they could interpret the word of God,but you wouldn't know for sure until you passed. It was said that the Puritans believed that the ones he did not choose just simply went to hell.



Write a 4-5 paragraph response to the Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Of Plymouth Plantation. Explain your thoughts about how these people lived. Better responses will have some direct textual evidence to support what you say. You may want to review these texts before writing your response.mply went to hell. Nobody knew who was the chosen ones and there was no way of finding out.


Sinners of an Angry God was a very frightening story to me. It made me think, because the sermon was so blunt. I don't know how other individuals feel about the story but it makes me feel like God is a mean person. I got the impression that he doesn't care and he thinks people deserves it. I go to church and I don't believe that about him but for the moment the story made me feel like he sends people to hell just because he know he can do it.

The reason I feel that way because throughout the sermon I kept hearing him repeat certain things about hell and how there is nothing you can do from getting dropped in it. "There is nothing between you and hell but the air, It is only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up." It is confusing because I thought that God's grace is earned and that's why those who believe in God tries to live right and by his word, but from reading the Puritans belief his grace can't be earned.

In "The First Harvest" they had to take theirselves and their children to the field and plant their own corn. That was good except when people started to get angry because the work they were doing was going towards other people children and wives I thought that was crazy. It was all good at first but when they had to do work for other families it became unfair for them. Especially since they got nothing for it. I personally would have quit. Everybody is trying to make food for their families and no matter what condition your in you should do for your own. Or the people that is working for others should get something from it.

They believed the same thing about the Puritans. "I answer, seeing all men have this corruption in them, God in His wisdom saw another course fitter for them." Its saying that everybody is naturally born a sinner. Their beliefs is similar to the Puritans.

3. Choose two of the four beliefs at the beginning of this post of which you saw examples in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, or Of Plymouth Plantation. Provide these examples with direct textual evidence.

Total Depravity - through Adam and Eve's fall, every person is born sinful - concept of Original Sin.

Direct Textual Edvidence: "Everyone was born a sinner"

Unconditional Election:
Direct Textual Edvidence: "God saved only a certain few, and Jesus didn't die for all."