Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God And Upon The Burning Of Our House Analysis

Throughout all of time, many have had very different and even identical religious opinions. In the pieces of work “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and “Upon the Burning of our House”, the authors have two polar opposite religious opinions. The author of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” ,Jonathan Edwards, feels that God is more of an angry God versus the opinions of Anne Bradstreet, the author of “Upon the Burning of our House”, who feels that God is more of a gracious God. Their opinions are very contradicting, but do have a few similarities.

Edwards piece is quite different from Bradstreet’s. He does believe in an eternal life like Bradstreet, but feels that everyone is doomed to the fiery pits of hell, unless they are saved …show more content…
To see so many rejoicing and singing for joy of heart, while you have cause to mourn for sorrow of heart, and howl for vexation of spirit!”. In this quote, Edwards is saying that all those who have obeyed God and were saved by him will be feasting, singing, and rejoicing in the end, while the sinners will be burning in agony. Edwards also believes that God has a different relationship with his children than Bradstreet’s views. Just from the title we can see that Edward’s believes that God is angry with all his children on Earth. This can be seen in the text when Edwards says, “So that, thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great towards them as to …show more content…
They both believe that eternal life will be amazing, and they both believe that god is merciful. Other than these minor similarities, they host a plethora of difference. They have different views as to what God is like. Bradstreet believes that god is gracious and forgiving while on the other hand, Edwards believes that he is more of a brutal god that is always waiting for you to mess up. They also have different views of eternal life. Bradstreet believes that eternal life will basically be a dream-come-true, and will have everything she can ever wish for, but Edwards believe it will basically be a party of everyone celebrating that they were not sent to hell. A final major difference that can be observed from these two pieces is the human moral weakness that can be observed from each. In Bradstreet’s piece, she refers to the idolization of material possessions being the main weakness to humans, while Edwards felt that it was the free will that was given to them. In the end, these pieces are very different, and almost seem to be polar