Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

harsh one based on nowadays rituals. They were overly religious and believed that god would inflict his wrath on those that didn’t believe or even on his own followers, just to test their devotion. This idea is used as a jeremiad to push forward their beliefs that God is the utmost one to care for, even over their kin. This came with the frightening ideas of Satan, witchcraft, and the Hell beneath them. “God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great towards them as to those that are…

heavy weight on that person's back. In the sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, by Jonathan Edwards he envelopes his listeners in fear by preaching on the thin line people walk on. By just sinning one time he states, “...there is nothing between you and Hell but the air”. People were horrified by this thought and many people were overcome with guilt and began to weep. As his speech develops Edwards returns hope to the people by declaring, “God stands ready to pity you”. By saying that…

it was God that made her happy. She realizes that the burning of her house was God's will and she respected God's choice to burn her house down. She views God as a mentor trying to keep Christians on the right track and in her case burning down her house prevented her from being too proud of her possesions. In short words, God burnt her house down to teach Bradstreet that she needs to be happy about her life not about her prizes possessions, Bradstreet obtains the message and praises God for it.…

establishments in Europe to start their own congregations. In the excerpt “Sinners in the hand of an Angry God”, the author Jonathan Edwards writes how God is angry at people who chose not to follow him. The author condemns these individuals with his writings to express God’s view on their ethics. “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…

Motivation” In my opinion, the use of fear is a very influential motivation to use. Nothing more than something that scares me will make me do whatever I need to get done, or in this case change me for the better. In the story, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, the preacher preaches in the sermon basically if you don’t convert to being a godly man/woman you will be sentenced to eternal dam nation which includes burning in a bottomless pit forever. He uses fear to scare you into…

and these places are not seen.” He is saying that sinners who have not turned their life over to God can find themselves falling into sin more and on their way to hell. He also tries to persuade them by saying, “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;” This simply means that God already has the sinner, the one who isn’t born again, in his hands ready to send them to hell because they will…

literature to emerge as well; pieces upon beliefs of the new religions or informative articles in papers or sermon pamphlets, (such as “Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God” by Christian theologian Jonathan Edwards.)…

homily, From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, conveys the idea that those who haven’t experienced an internal renewal are servants of the devil. Edwards’ purpose is to portray the depravity and perversion of sinners and their ways. He adopts multiple tones, a fearful tone being a prevalent one, in order to foreground the immorality of choosing sin over God and the implications of doing so. Edwards proficiently uses the stylistic choices of diction and syntax to reiterate the power of God…

“There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending his solemn worship” - Jonathan Edwards. I will be comparing the literature works of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards and To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet. The early American authors were similar and different because of religious beliefs and writing style. Both authors are very…

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God “You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.” Jonathan Edwards stated this quote in his famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. On July 8th, 1741, in Enfield, Connecticut, Edwards expressed his beliefs to his audience: people who were not saved by God will go to Hell; these “people” were also known as “Unconverted Men”. Edwards was known for the uprising theology of the Great Awakening. Henceforth upon…