The Life & Teachings Of Johnathan Edwards: Interview With Sam Storm “How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so …

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  1. Our pastor for years talked about his 5 dead guys and Edwards was of coarse one of them. He passed away in 2018 and I wish now I had paid better attention. Thank you for this conversation . My wife got me a condensed book of sermons from Edwards last Christmas called "A Journey Toward Heaven" edited by Dustin Benge. Really nice to have as it is a daily devotional and an easy read.
    I would like to point a few things out in defense of the slavery issue, it seems that definitions of terms is absolutely necessary to understand a topic. The term slavery is used in the Bible and not condemned but it is not chattel slavery. If Edwards held no racist views then I cant see how what he did was wrong especially considering the time period. My wife's mother from Holland was in Indonesia as a child and they had local people as servants all the time. They treated them very well and became very much a part of the family. When she got back to Holland after the war they were accused of taking advantage of these people ,but they really had not.

  2. I'm sorry but right and wrong are evident to us all, and the "times one lives in" are no excuse for wrongdoing. I am not for "cancelling" Johnathan Edwards, but am all for saying that slaveholding was wrong no matter who did it and when. Slave owneship was sinful in 1619, 1719, 1819, and 2023. But hey, Edwards had a lot of kids and needed a lot of help, so slavery! Gimme a break, people. Don't cancel him, just read him with a grain of salt.

  3. I took a history class at George Mason a few years ago about George Washington and something taught in the class really enlightened me to this issue – that slave owners who were kind to their slaves and treated them well, were considered a blessing and protective since slavery was legal and they needed kind/godly owners.

  4. Remnant Radio has been integral in my increasing desire to delve into church history and the teachings of men and women of God in times past. I recognize the necessity of learning from past successes and failures and incorporating those into my own life and ministry, as well as the love of the truth and doctrine. Thank you guys for your service to the body of Christ! May the Lord bless and increase your ministry.

  5. Wikipedia:
    "Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian who wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
    Like Edwards' other works, it combines vivid imagery of Hell with observations of the world and citations of Biblical scripture. Edwards' role as an enslaver and advocate of slavery has been the subject of recent controversy"
    My comment:
    There is no evidence that anything Edwards ever said or wrote is true.

  6. For sure edwards should have known. Also, if it was before the revolution, he’s not American, he’s British…☺️ and belongs to the commonwealth. 🤭 also, it’s petty…. It’s indigenous, not native Indians. I find it interesting he had a major ministry with the indigenous, but was a slave owner, but indigenous people were also sold and traded in the slave trade in America. However, I agree. Don’t cancel, but I think it’s okay to critic past people. Not white wash it. Otherwise it looks like we are hiding something. It’s about humility. Greatest mind, but had a major flaw. You can know and read many languages and not understand the Imago Dei and justify owning someone instead of giving someone meaningful employment.

  7. 7:25 Jonathan Edwards or John Owen the greatest mind(s) in the history of the church? I’m not sure I’d even rate them among the top ten. Above Edwards and Owen (in roughly chronological order) I’d at the very least put Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine, Cyril of Alexandria, Maximus the Confessor, Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Johann Gerhard, Gottfried Leibniz, Alvin Plantinga, and N.T. Wright, to name a few. Even in their own day, Edwards and Owen were simply outclassed by Gottfried Leibniz; Leibniz was simply a better philosopher, mathematician, and, dare I say, theologian.

  8. The condemnation of people in the past owning slaves is always odd to me, as most of the time those condemnations are being made by people on devices, wearing clothes, and surrounded by objects likely made with slave labor. Slavery is wrong, but instead of focusing on dead men participating in it we should probably be more concerned with our own current participation in it.

  9. God says; 1 Cor 1 18-19
    I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” so there's that. Forgive me but when we need to preface who we are by first listing our degrees and the number of books we've written and how long we've preached or taught I think there is a manifestation of something going on.

  10. Funny how Storms thinks the Calvinist God is somehow bigger. He forgets that He can be knocked over by a "Rogue molecule" according to Sproul and others. He is incapable of making free willed creatures.

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