When Jonathan Edwards wrote, from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he wrote it to emphasize three main points. The three main points being: we are all sinners and not perfect, we have a dependence on God, and we have a vision of hope. Edwards writes his prompt in a fearing way; however, he ends it with hope. According to Edwards, we all depend on God. Edwards uses many different examples to show our dependence on God like, “if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend [to Hell]” (Edwards 109). Edwards is saying that God determines whether we go to Heaven or Hell and we have to depend on God to hold on to us from our mere damnation. There also, is a vision of hope explained by Edwards. Edwards said that there
