Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The Puritans

1). The Puritans beliefs were that God didn't die for all of us he died for the chosen ones only. The ones that was doing something with their life, and that the people that were chosen by god gets more freedom than the lower class meaning they get treated like kings and anyone who goes against it will get punished cause they will be going against god as well.
The things that will happen to the people that go against his will will be persecuted like he will make it rain and lighting so that the lighting will hit someone’s home.They also believed that the Bible was the way to go in life meaning everything that’s written down in the Bible is true so that you should do it, follow what it's taking about and your life will be good.
2). Well I think that The Puritans is a good book, they believed in a lot of things if god was involved in it. The Plymouth plantation, I think that was really smart, that the brave people left their homes in England to escape religious persecution by immigrating to America, because if I was them I would escape to then to be persecuted, I would live everything
and take my family.
The puritans will punish the people who don't believe. "Winthrop exhorts his listeners to carry on God's mission and to set a Shining Example for the rest of the world."
I think that's good for them to believe that the Bible is the right way to go for living but they getting a little out of hand with it, because if you do something wrong they will punish you in some way depends on what you did.
I also think the story is a little crazy to, because it’s stiff we need some sinners in this world if we didn't it would be boring, and everyone would be doing
about the same thing.
They also believed in typology, that god intention's was on humans actions, and they're belief was that history repeats all by it self. I'm glad that I wasn’t born back then because I would go crazy for having no action and doing what people tell me to do, and I would be mad if I mast up one time and have to go to hell for it.
3). The Puritans believed in one God the same God that the Christians do, and that he came to save us all. It didn't matter what you do to prevent from going to hell if god had his mind sat on it you are going you can save someone from Drying he will not change his mind, only if you was one of God chosen one's to go to hell, that what they believed in. "God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death."
The Puritans believed that if you believed in them, the Puritans religion you would have to go to church to become a member of the puritans society. "This practice further developed in a situation in which you were beaten or killed if you did not believe in the puritans religion and remained in puritan Utopia."
4). I think they wrote in this style so that know one else can read it unreadable, only the people who understand it knows what their taking about wanted people to get the facts of it.
All of the puritans didn't write in that style. "Nonetheless, it must also be pointed out that not all the puritans wrote in the high flown academic tones of a John Owen."
I believe that they wrote in that style because they were depress and that their destiny was chosen for them. For an Example if someone was drinking, or stays out and don't go to any of the religions meeting it doesn’t matter he will still go to heaven because that's what is chosen for him. Someone that dose the right things do what they supposed to do to make up what he did wrong will still have to go to hell because that’s been chosen for him.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

My reading journal

The name of book that i read was Paradise, by Toni Morrison. I read some of it but it's wasen't that interesting to me one part is when the mother got knocked down the stairs by her daughter, two brothers shot each other on New Year's day. Them was the parts that stuck out the most to me that was interesting.