Monday, 16 February 2015

According to Edwards, have human beings appeased God?

Part of
what is Edwards's driving motivation in the sermon is to make clear how human beings have not
appeased God.  Edwards wishes to convince individuals that they are living on borrowed time from
the divine. Edwards suggests that part of the reason that human beings have not appeased God is
because they operate under the belief that they are infallible and incapable of death. Edwards
sees human beings possessing a mentality that they are the beginning and end of their existence,
without paying proper homage to the divine. Edwards seeks to repudiate this idea and make human
beings...

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