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Agree. Read Edward's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Paul's sermon on Mars Hill and tell me if you think that they are portraying the same character of God.
I agree they are so different that they are better described as different religions than different sects. The message at mars hill is fundamentally welcoming and is based on what the author perceives as knowledge and excuses the Athenians their ignorance. Edwards is about punishment of the wicked, how they deserve it, and they shall receive it. It's not his invention but based on many hundreds of years of development of this fear based theology throughout Europe.
The message on mars hill does speak of judgment but it's not clear to me what's being described here. Frankly, I agree with most scholars who don't consider the author of acts to have known paul, but rather been a distant admirer. He has a different view of paul and pauls theology and contradicts pauls own accounts of himself. Also, Paul is simply a more intelligent and gifted writer than the author of acts, for authentic Pauline views I'd stick to his letters. Even still the difference in message is clear.
Paul never so much as whispers the thought of hell (there is one mention of Tartarus in a letter widely considered as inauthentically Pauline). He betrays no knowledge of the gospels at all, let alone the verses purported to be said by jesus about hell. He simply has nothing to say about it. Conversely, Edwards, would have nothing to say without hell.