Analysis of Sinner's in the Hands of an Angry God

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To take the first jab at answering this inquiry, it would be fair to assume one would ask this question in rhetorical context, being that the answer is blatantly obvious. Though to prove my conjecture, it will be necessary to first prove logical validations in this Question. We will also apply the analysis of the reference to a sermon titled “sinners in the hand's of an angry god” which was given by a preacher named Johnathan Edwards in 1741, it was a well written argument, first providing a danger or infinite despair in “Hell”, then supplying the ultimate trump card of happiness in the form of “Heaven,” but ultimately it was highly successful in attracting people to the puritan religion. People derive belief's through all ports of thought, and life. and some of us make the mistake of grouping beliefs solely to religion, when in actuality, beliefs range widely from proverbial sayings, to tautological axioms, to believing in the success of a musician, beliefs are trust in something, and are not always so illogical. First, let us examine Logical thought to prove rhetorical the aims of the question in reference. To begin first, we must clarify a few key concepts from Aristotle's “Laws of Thought,” first take note of the fact that the question is also, a pair of statement's, in that; A Or B, the first law—the law of identity—states that “A is A, just as B is B” things have respective nature, everything is the same as itself and different from another. Recognizing the boundaries of a phenomenon no matter what form it may posses, is the first step in understanding said item, and correctly correlating it to other entities. The second la... ... middle of paper ... ...dia. Retrieved 2/23/2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_classic_laws_of_thought#Aristotle. Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2/23/2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion. Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2/23/2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum. Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2/23/2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empiricism. Plato, rowan education, aesthetics. Retrieved, 2/23/2014 http://www.rowan.edu/open/philosop/clowney/aesthetics/philos_artists_onart/plato.htm. Brittannica Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2/24/2014 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1533826/contradictories-and-contraries. Plato. Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy February, 2014 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analytic-synthetic/. Aristotle, metaphysics translated W.D. Ross.

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