God has been misrepresented as a merciless tyrant more reminiscent of the brutal soldiers of Pilate than of the compassionate victim of their violence. This type of hell-fire-and-brimstone ...

God brings a certain person into being ... choose the latter and end up suffering for eternity in a place of fire and brimstone. And yet, God still brings this person into being.

“The God that holds you over the pit of hell ... Presumably because of this sermon Edwards has been stigmatized as a fire and brimstone fanatic. For Henry B. Parkes, Edwards’ theology was ...