Jonathan Edwards 'Sinners In An Angry God'

The author, Jonathan Edwards’ views on human nature is that humans are sinful by nature. Also, according to his background of him being a Puritan, Puritans think that people are also sinful by nature. n his sermon he says people like “you burns like fire; he looks upon you as a worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight,” to show that God is very upset with the sinners. So Jonathan is trying to say that when this world has people who are sinners, it will lead to consequences. Even though God does not like sinners, God said “ God’s hand can hold you up” to show that even though humans are of a sinful nature, they can fix it. Basically people are born sinful, but they have a chance to redeem themselves and ask for forgiveness for their misdeeds.

The sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, uses figurative language like metaphor to support his claim. For example, he said “ The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow is made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart.” …show more content…
He talks about how he would lose his family, friends, and luxury. No one would care about him even though what he has been through. For example, he said there is “a new refinement in cruelty, which, while it has no advantage to atone for it, thus aggravates distress, and adds fresh horrors even to the wretchedness of slavery.” If human nature is now adding new horrors to slavery, then that means that human nature is going to be on a whole new level of cruelty. They are being separated from families and friends and no one is doing anything to help people who are suffering this. He uses a lot of negativity towards human nature to influence his writing. Since Olaudah Equiano has very bad experience and bad views on human nature, his writing will be really negative when it comes to human