Sinners In The Hand Of An Angry God Analysis

Adilene Almeyda
“Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” Analysis The message that I got from this sermon was that God is the only reason that we have not gone to Hell. I believe that Jonathan Edwards was trying to bring people back to a life of faith. It seems to me that he was a very devout believer that wanted others to join him in his belief. He was trying to make people realize that they need God and that they need the church. The author connects the physical world to the spiritual world. He tells us that the hand of God is the only thing keeping us from going to Hell and from destruction. God controls whether or not we die at any moment, and this next excerpt of the text really stuck out to me. “Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of …show more content…
It also refers to God as being “incensed” or angry at us just as he is angry at the damned in Hell. Edwards uses numerous examples of imagery to describe what would and will happen to us if we do not convert to the faith. The vivid imagery causes listeners to imagine what will happen to them if they don’t convert. The way that the sermon is written and read, it causes fear and shock in the audience, or at least it did for me when I listened it. “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards Hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf,” is an example of imagery used in the text. Edwards mentions our “wickedness” (or our sins) as something that weighs up down, while God’s hand holds us up and is the only thing that is saving