He died on March 22, 1758, in New Jersey. Edwards grew up in a religious family and went to school at Yale at the age of fourteen. He is known for his sermon entitled “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God.” Jonathan Edwards is known as an incredibly intense, and fiery preacher. He was known as “the last Puritan” or “the last of the Puritans.” He was known as this because he went by his Puritan ways until his older days when he changed his opinions on salvation. At first he thought that God chose the people that he would save, following Puritan belief. Towards the end of his life, he started to realize that God did not choose people, people had to choose God. Edwards believed that everyone has a choice in who they believe, God does not choose some people and then turn his back on everyone else. These are the opinions of Jonathan
He died on March 22, 1758, in New Jersey. Edwards grew up in a religious family and went to school at Yale at the age of fourteen. He is known for his sermon entitled “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God.” Jonathan Edwards is known as an incredibly intense, and fiery preacher. He was known as “the last Puritan” or “the last of the Puritans.” He was known as this because he went by his Puritan ways until his older days when he changed his opinions on salvation. At first he thought that God chose the people that he would save, following Puritan belief. Towards the end of his life, he started to realize that God did not choose people, people had to choose God. Edwards believed that everyone has a choice in who they believe, God does not choose some people and then turn his back on everyone else. These are the opinions of Jonathan