Have you ever wanted someone to believe in the same things as you so much that you told them every other view on the matter is wrong except yours? In an excerpt of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, Jonathan Edwards does exactly that. In short, Edwards said that anyone that does not believe in the same thing as he believes in, will not be able to go to heaven. That it is the grace of God keeping them from suffering. Also that they will eventually go to hell if they are not practicing the same beliefs as Edwards. Edwards’ sophisticated use of use of similes and imagery creates his abhorring attitudes towards people outside of his faith. In the fourth paragraph, the sentence “The wrath of God is like great waters…when once it is let loose.”
