Puritanism on colonial America late 17th century!

It was in the northern colonies that Puritanism made its greatest impact. In New England, several colonies were founded whose basic original motivation was clearly religious. The first of these was the Plymouth Plantation who developed the idea of founding in the New World a community based on their religious principles. They came to an agreement with the Virginia Company, which was in urgent need of settlers, and among whose members there was a strong Puritan influence. They settled beyond the limits of Virginia. After this first settlement, a group of English Puritans, wishing to found in the New World a community more akin to their conscience, organized the Massachusetts Bay community. The Puritan colonies, Massachusetts and Connecticut, saw a number of theological controversies. The main difficulty was that many of these Puritans, while preserving the custom of baptizing children, insisted on the need of a conversion experience in order to be truly Christian. The Puritan goal was of founding a society that would be guided by biblical principles.

To colonial America there were issues such as slavery, where religion was bent towards the powerful. They wanted religious diversity were no one group dominated .It was accepted, as religious toleration became typical of the colonies. Rigid puritan uniformity was broken around 1684.

NOTES

1 Patricia Meade Marr, History of the Modern Church II, Lecture Notes (Van Nuys: King’s University, 2010).

透過耶穌基督嘅救恩！

隨住基督教歷史嘅發展，「耶穌」呢個名被稱為「耶和華係救恩」。後來，我哋而家見到耶穌係救主同救贖者，從罪同靈性黑暗中救出嚟，佢喺十字架上流血，為咗償還我哋嘅罪，如果我哋相信佢係唯一嘅方法！神！噉佢就係我哋嘅救主喇！

我哋而家需要有一個重生嘅經歷，先可以同佢建立關係！重生咗，佢就睇唔到神嘅國度喇。」因為神愛世人，所以將佢嘅獨生子獻上，叫信佢嘅人唔會滅亡，而係得永生。 25-26話：「耶穌對佢講：『我係復活同生命呢個？’ “

所以我哋需要相信同悔改我哋嘅罪，先可以同神建立一種關係，呢種關係只係透過同我哋嘅救主同主耶穌嘅重生經歷而得到決心放棄以自己為中心嘅生活方式。」2

筆記

辛克萊爾 · 費格森、大衛 · 萊特同 J.I. 帕克編，新神學詞典，（唐納斯格羅夫：大學間出版社，1988年），610。
米拉德 · 埃里克森，基督教神學，（大急流城：貝克學術出版社，2006），959。

講以下嘅祈禱去重生：
「耶穌我相信你死喺十字架上，
為咗赦免我嘅罪，流血；
第三日又升返起！
我知道我係個罪人。
請你入嚟我個心度！
嚟做我嘅救主同我生命嘅主啦！
多謝你耶穌 ”