Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

lives in. It came with one night, one mistake, came a lifetime of public shame. But should she really feel all this guilt? Should the people of Boston force it on her? Now, with the way that the novel is set up, Hester has seemingly been dealt a bad hand of cards from fates deck. This bad luck seems to be present in the first few chapters of the story. Hester had the bad luck of no husband in a time where a woman was nothing without a husband. She had the bad luck of falling for a man, who was…

horrors of hell. He describes it as a terrible place and does not forget to mention all of the fire and flames. This sermon was very much an effort to tell people what hell was like and how God is the only thing holding them from the wrath of hell. He states that it is natural that God is holding us in his hand over the pit of hell, because it is what we deserve. I found this statement very interesting because of its accuracy but harshness. I feel as if that harshness part comes from how this…

the beliefs of Rationalism and Deism were on the rise. The First Great Awakening was mostly associated with the Protestant preacher Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan Edwards essentially believed that all humans were inherent sinners and that we are all sinners in the hands of an Angry God. Edwards preached highly emotional sermons that were built on principles found in Calvinism, he believed that the only way to decide where you were to end up in the afterlife was to surrender entirely to God's will…

Paikea, on the other hand, has been born into a family of chiefs where she was supposed to be a boy who could lead. Despite the children both having the same search for destiny, they nevertheless have to overcome obstacles that are genuinely different and change them in different…

of our House” exemplifies that the future will always be better than the past. She thanks God for saving her family in the fire and was calm and content with what she had while watching her house burn to ashes. Bradstreet is showing the values of the Puritan lifestyle through the way she thanks God for her family as her house is burning; the effect of Puritan writing is important to her view of faith in God. In the era of the African slave trade, Olaudah Equiano’s historical writing, “The Middle…

love Cannot Do The love of Jehovah is massive and incomparable to the love of man. You might wonder why this enormous love of God could not proof itself in some situations. I remembered an old story of a king and his slave. “The king, who did not believe in the goodness of God, had a slave who, in all circumstances, said: “My king, do not be discouraged, because everything God does is perfect, no mistakes!” One day they went hunting and along the way a wild animal attacked the king. His slave…

Everything on his face was covered except his mouth and chin, I think this was because his smile and words are important to the mood of the story. The people begin to believe that Mr. Hooper had committed a sin and was using the veil to hide from God. Hawthorne had done something like this in The Scarlet Letter when Hester had to wear the “A”. “Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost of fearful a sight to the minister, as his black veil to them.” (2) Showed us that the congregation…

understand that the world has been promised to the Messiah. Psalm 2 tells us what exactly is going on in our world. In this Psalm the Psalmist revealed God’s definite answer to a sinful and rebellious world. The entire canon of scripture reveals to us that God Almighty responds to the sinful and rebellious world with judgment and grace. Today as we examine this passage, I want us to find refuge in the LORD’s Anointed, by faithful serving and rejoicing in him. As we approach the text, we will…

Additionally, humans are social creatures that can only survive with social relationships. In the poem Upon the Burning of Our House the author speaks about accepting the outcome of life and respecting god’s actions. People try to be good so they can be with god in the end. The author says “Didst fix thy hope on mold’ring dust…..Raise up thy thoughts above the sky That dunghill mists away may fly” (Bradstreet 119). In this stanza the author reveals the character 's thought throughout stating…

This essay discusses the deadly vice wrath and the contrasting biblical virtue forgiveness. It describes the differences between the sinful anger and the justifiable anger of man and it describes the justifiable anger of God. Furthermore, it discusses how wrath and revenge cause problems in our postmodern society. It illustrates this by considering a current issue that affects the United States. It reflects on the issue of school shootings and how they are often linked to the desire for revenge.…