Biblical Allusion In Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

Johnathon Edwards born in East Windsor, Connecticut on October 5, 1703. He is the only son to Timothy Edwards out of a family of eleven children. He went to Yale University at the age of twelve and follow both his father and grandfather footsteps in 1722 and became the church pastor of Northampton, Massachusetts when his grandfather died after three years of assisting him in the church. Out of his 1,200 sermon the most famous one is “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” which help trigger the “Great Awaking” from 1737-1750. He uses persuasion such as figurative language, emotional appeal, and many more to convince the unconverted to believe in “God” and “HIS holy ways” and save them from “Hell” and bring them to “Heaven”, Edwards’s persuasion writing skills converted many people and he did it all because he uses emotional appeals, …show more content…
He uses it to refer it to the bible which they read or learn about it in church since they were many puritan during the early 1700 and believed in what the bible says. Edwards clams that biblical allusion will help them understand the situation that they are in when they on a verge on going to “hell”. For example “Who knows the power of God’s anger?”(Edward129). He uses it to show that it’s referring to of the stories in the bible. When “God” is trying to help out those who needed help, but was betrayed by Adam and Eve the “First Human in the World” took a bite on the forbidden fruit on the forbidden tree in “God’s” garden and “God” felt so betrayed at both of them. So betray that HE told both Adam and Eve to leave the garden and HE told them that they can never come back to the garden, but HE keeps the doors close till the day that someone will derisive the rights to live in “God’s” garden if they only gain HIS trust. No one will know when that day will come, but they do know that “God’s” garden is what the puritan or people who are converted knows it as “Heaven”, “God’s”