Illegal drugs are bad for you and your body. If you take an illegal drug you can end up with very serious problems. By taking drugs for your entertainment you will be classified as either a criminal or a victim. Drugs do not solve problems, but make problems worse. They can ruin every aspect of a person’s life, not to mention affect your friends and family’s lives not to mention affect your friends and family’s lives as well. By doing drugs you are wasting your money, your time, and your life. Smoking is also a drug and is a terrible addicting habit to have. When you smoke your lungs fill up with poison that will causes damage to your body, and mind. If you continue to smoke you will be destined to a life with a buddy called an oxygen machine. No matter what you do or where you go, you will have to carry one of these machines around. Drinking is another drug and is also very bad for you.
God does not want you to drink alcohol. If you choose to drink alcohol you are headed down a slippery slope straight to hell. Each drink you have slides you further down this slope. God is holding each of you by a string and he could choose to let go at any time. Keep drinking alcohol and he could let you fall down at any moment. Each drink you have, you are more likely to be dropped. The devils stand ready to fall upon you and seize you at any moment. They stand ready, like greedy, hungry lions that see their prey and expect to have it. God’s hand is restraining them for the moment. Continue to drink alcohol and that could change. Encourage your friends around you not to drink alcohol. They are hanging by a string also, and are exposed to the same peril you are in. Right now you are healthy, if you should leave this world, it would be by accident. There is no visible danger to you. People who drink walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering. There are numerable places where this covering is weak. Keep drinking and you could fall at any moment. Any care you take to preserve your own life or the care others give to preserve your life will not secure you. Continue to drink and you will damn yourself. Right now you have an extraordinary opportunity. The doors of mercy are wide open. Put down your alcoholic drink and make a commitment to quit drinking. You will be in a happy state with your heart full of love. Join the group and don’t be left behind!
If you uses drugs, alcohol or smoke you will have a life that is short and not worthwhile. You will lose friends, jobs and loved ones and your life. Don’t smoke do drugs or alcohol if you want to live a life full of health and happiness.
What changes did you make to your paragraph to make it resemble Edward’s work?
I wanted the writing to have that fire and brimstone feel that “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” has. I was forward about my belief on smoking. I didn't give any indication of that you might not end up causing damage. I just said it will cause damage. This resembles Edward's work because he was very forward about his beliefs and he was right.
Could Edward’s words have the same effect today? Why or why not?
Yes. Edward’s words could have the same effect today. There is something to be said for the peer pressure of being in a group and not wanting to be left behind. Edward’s words were powerful and really give the feeling that you are missing out on something if you don’t join the group and get left behind. I think so just because if you walk into any church during a service, more than likely it will sound just like Edwards's; forward and believable.
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I think you guys did a great job with that paragraph! It definitely mirrored the "fire and brimstone" feel that Edwards had that you were going for. You're so right about how he was so blunt and to the point about his beliefs and that came through in the paragraph you did. You can tell that he was being so harsh because he really cares about and believes in the topic. He genuinely wanted to warn people about the dangers of the lives they may be leading. I thought your paragraph sounded just as if Edwards had written it himself. I especially liked the "hungry lions" part. You used the same types of powerful imagery as he did. Great job!
ReplyDeleteI love the beginning paragraph to your project, it is well written and well said. I like the correlation to everything the was read in our book to what you had to say. Everything with drinking, drugs, and alcohol is totally true. Everyone who does those things is just setting themselves up for failure and sliding down the slide to hell. They are just waiting to be dropped from Gods hands. I believe the most that God does not appreciate anyone who does the following drugs, alcohol, and smoking. None of those things are setting you up for a good life or anything just for failure and God is right there ready to drop you down.
ReplyDeleteWell done group. I have to say that your group’s style of writing closely correlates to Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Edwards put a lot of emphasis on his beliefs in his writing. He would say if you did not follow God you would essentially rot in hell. Your group used alcohol and smoking as your sole point in the posting. You were very forward, just like Edwards, especially when you said “Continue to drink and you will damn yourself. Right now you have an extraordinary opportunity. The doors of mercy are wide open. Put down your alcoholic drink and make a commitment to quit drinking.” Your group did a great job getting your point across, just like Edwards did, and did not hold back on the beliefs you have on this subject.
ReplyDeleteYour one line, "God is holding each of you by a string and he could choose to let go at any time," was really good. Throughout Jonathan Edwards' sinners sermon he kept bringing up that God can, "cast wicked men into hell at any moment." (195). I thought your line did a great job of representing that part of his speech. Your speech was just as straightforward and in your face as Edwards', stating that whatever you say is right and that it is the only possible thing that can happen. I also like the imagery you use when you mention that drinkers, "walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering." That descriptive line can get stuck in your head and force you to think about the consequences of drinking.
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