Page |110 Personifications of God toetivatien to depict God as one’s . personal guide and friend, well within Jonathan Edwards wrote during a one’s sensory reach. By conjuring up an time in which monarchs reigned anthropomorphic God with loving supreme. Writing from this perspective, emotions, intentions, and actions, the he argued that the universe is a cosmic Vineyard Church creates a desire for a society organized under the leadership of personal relationship with God. But a King of kings, a society against which developing a relationship with an humans have rebelled and, as a invisible God defies rationality. People consequence, humans are at risk of must learn how to transform an abstract annihilation except for the mercy of the concept of an invisible God into a King. Judgment day will come, concrete sensory presence in their lives. according to Edwards, and those who Just as the social brain can perceive have failed to meet their moral nonhuman objects as human, the social responsibility to the directive of the brain is also capable of selectively universe face eternal isolation. Clark attending to sensory experiences and Gilpin notes that by conjuring up a interpreting these sensations as God’s personified God — a God with emotions, presence. intentions, and the capacity to act — Edwards instilled great fear and trembling in his listeners that presumably motivated them to change their behaviors in the desired direction. It is hard to imagine that Edwards would have had comparable success had he resorted to simple instructions or exhortations to engage in certain behaviors and avoid others. The innate tendency of people to understand divine entities in terms of what people do understand, namely their own thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, provided the leverage on which Edwards relied to drive his message home. Tanya Luhrmann also discusses a personalized construction of God — a God with whom one can consult and who intervenes in one’s daily life. People are i