Puritans



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 * A model of the world**- Either you are saved or not saved. Puritans were single-minded visionaries convinced of the rightness of their beliefs, but they were also practical and businesslike. I do not think puritans were practical and business like because they worried about going to heaven or hell not how there businesses were going. Believed that we all are sinners."Believed that every human being sins, so that doesn't make us different." A good example of puritans is the crucible. In this story they kill and burn people at the stake for "witchcraft". Even though in reality it was just a couple of girls trying to get people out of the way so they could obtain what they wanted. The townsfolk crucified the sinners because they wouldn't confess to their sins. So they killed them for being ungodly. This is a great example of the puritans extremeness.

"Associated exclusively with no single theology or definition of the church (although many were Calvinists), the English Puritans were known at first for their extremely critical attitude regarding the religious compromises made during the reign of Elizabeth I. Many of them were graduates of Cambridge University, and they became Anglican priests to make changes in their local churches. They encouraged direct personal religious experience, sincere moral conduct, and simple worship services. Worship was the area in which Puritans tried to change things most; their efforts in that direction were sustained by intense theological convictions and definite expectations about how seriously Christianity should be taken as the focus of human existence.""The Puritans wanted to reform the world to conform God's laws."
 * Explanation** The Puritans believed that everything comes from god. They argued that the world is the way it is because of our sin.They believed that if something happed to you, it was because you were getting punished from god.
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 * Futurology**- Either you go to heaven or hell, depending on what you believe. This is a inner knowledge that a person must consciencely believe that they are saved because they live a pure life and have commited no major sins. But, we all CAME FROM HEAVEN."The Puritans thought that whatever you believed in depends on where yuo go either heaven or hell."

If you do good, you will show you are saved, and if you do bad, you will show you are damned and you are going to hell. They valued self-reliance, industriousness, temperance, simplicity, and education. "If you do good actions you will go to heaven and if you do bad actions you will go to hell."
 * Values**

They believed that you are to act good, go to church, and obey god's laws. If you had good crops that year and were very profitable working at your job, you were considered blessed and saved. They thought that if you made money and were a hard worker, you would be on god's good side and be saved, but if you got sick, lost a family member, or lost your job, then you were considered not saved, and you need to work harder to be a good Puritan. To do good things for other people, because that is what God thinks is right. "Even though he broke with the authorities of the Massachusetts colony over questions of religious freedom, Roger Williams was also a true Puritan in his zeal for personal godliness and doctrinal correctness. Most of these men held ideas in the mainstream of Calvinistic thought. **In addition to believing in the absolute sovereignty of God, the total depravity of man, and the complete dependence of human beings on divine grace for salvation, they stressed the importance of personal religious experience.** These Puritans insisted that they, as God's elect, had the duty to direct national affairs according to God's will as revealed in the Bible. This union of church and state to form a holy commonwealth gave Puritanism direct and exclusive control over most colonial activity." [|**http://mb-soft.com/believe/txc/puritani.htm**] **"**They believed that you had to obey laws, do the right things, don't get in trouble, and go to church to be a good Puritan." "What is true and what is false?" - how do we know? The bible is truth, and temptations are false. They thought saints should be in study to better themselves and show their salvation. But the damned wouldn't be in study because they didn't care. If we do things here on earth to make it better, our lives will be better. "Heaven is true and hell is false."
 * Action**
 * Knowledge**

The Puritans believed that a good Christian should not party or work hard they should just live a simple life. They should all do good for others, and have self-reliance, industriousness, simplicity, and temperance. "The Puritans believed that they had to do good things for others, and make good decisions for theirselves."
 * Action**

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