All right, Pastor John, here's a question about emotions and affections.

Are affections more than emotions?

Are emotions part of affections?

Are affections totally different than emotions?

Or are affections the source of emotions?

How would you explain all this?

Seeing that question makes it sound like the question is, what's the difference between

the liver and the kidneys?

Now what I mean is there are two objects out there.

One is a liver, one is the kidneys, everybody knows a liver, if they see it, everybody knows

the kidney, if they see it, and what the question means is, tell me the difference between

them, different function, whatever.

That is not what's going on in this question.

There isn't a liver out there called affections and a kidney out there called emotions,

and let's just talk about the differences.

This questioner doesn't know what they are.

The question really is, what should I mean?

What should I refer to when I use the word emotion?

What should I refer to when I use the word affections?

At least that's the way I'm hearing it, because I don't know what they have in mind when

they say emotion and what they have in mind when they say affections.

I think the best way for me to answer it is to say, how do I, and say Jonathan Edwards,

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