The way the puritans lived

Well, the sinners in the hands of god video showed some strange ways of living as well as their beliefs. The video was about how the puritans only beleived that god saved only a few people and the rest was going to hell. i really felt like that was a messed up way to carry on in life. Because i was raised by different beleifs and that was, everyone was created by god. so, therefore every one was considerd as a blessing and not of a sin.

They also believed that there was no way to earn gods grace, it was left to the saints to interpret the word of God. I though was an ignorant way to think and carry on in life with that particular mind frame. When i discovered that the puritans believed in the opposite of what i was raised to believe, which i find is the normal way to believe, kind of distirbed me. God dosent discriminate against anyone. not even if they have commited a sin because there's always room for forgiveness in God's eyes. So therefore i felt like the way those people lived was very uncommon.

The passage that i read from the William Bradford's plymouth plantation history source was appealing to me. I was interested by that passage because it was a little more relating to me then the ''sinners in the hands of an angry god'. it was refreshing to read about people that think like normal children of god should think!! these people obviously worship god and god only and feels that god is always around to help and save. No matter what the situation and what type of the person they are.

I've realized that these are people who call on god whenever they are in some kind of tragic situaiton. so that tells me that they think of him to be a very powerful person and that there's no limit to who interprets the word of god. Thats something that i find very common for people to do, unlike the people of the "Sinners in the hand of and angry god'. But when it's all said and done there are always going to be people that have their own beliefs which is nonthing wrong with that. Because everyone is entitled to their own opinion. weather they think everyone is full of sin or not but i guess only god could determine who goes to heaven or hell.