Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God Summary

During the colonial period, there were so many people who felt insecure, and wanted to rely on something or someone. Some people wanted to be or feel superior than others, to be equal, or to be different. Or they just agreed with someone to be safe. Others feared the presence of something or someone. Many people relied on something they can’t feel or touch, and some people still believe in- religion. People in this time didn’t have enough resource, so they depended on god, scared of knowing what actually is going on. In the literature “Sinners in the hand of an angry god” by Jonathan Edwards, he stated what is the benefit of being a christian.They made the god responsible for everything that happened to them or around them. This literature’s purpose was mostly because of the Great Awakening. During this period, the church in Connecticut had less influence of the Great Awakening, so the author spoke upon the invitation by the church’s pastor to preach to the congregation: “O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath...” He aimed to teach the …show more content…
This literature’s aim was to make the congregation aware that their conduct and actions on earth was much more important than other things they did. It also seeks to add that particular punishments awaited the sinners in hell because they failed to communicate with god even though they had the chance to. While Edwards wished to influence their actions, he considered it better to talk about God’s anger with the idea of sinning and immoderation instead of warning about sinning. To make sure they understood everything, he told them about the power within god. The people got reminded of the disasters that they went through, and imagined that angry god did