Oct 1

Written by: Bob Flynn
10/1/2008 7:24 AM 

 "It is a hard thing to be a hearty zealous friend of what has been good and glorious, in the late extraordinary appearances, and to rejoice much in it; and at the same time to see the evil and pernicious tendency of what has been bad, and earnestly to oppose that. But yet, I am humbly but fully persuaded, we shall never be in the way of truth, nor go on in a way acceptable to God, and tending to the advancement of Christ's kingdom till we do so.  There is indeed something very mysterious in it, that so much good, and so much bad, should be mixed together in the church of God; as it is a mysterious thing, and what has puzzled and amazed many a good Christian, that there should be that which is so divine and precious, as the saving grace of God, and the new and divine nature dwelling in the same heart, with so much corruption, hypocrisy, and iniquity, in a particular saint. Yet neither of these is more mysterious than real. And neither of them is a new or rare thing. It is no new thing, that much false religion should prevail, at a time of great reviving of true religion, and that at such a time multitudes of hypocrites should spring up among true saints."

Dr. Jonathan Edwards was the man God used to preach two great awakenings in the beginning days of our great nation.  He is known by believer and non-believer alike to be the geatest philosopher and theologian to step foot upon the soil of America.

We see here by his words in the forward of his book, The Religious Affections, that the real terrorist threat to our way of life is described.  Perhaps we are the terrorists, deceived in the faith.