Compare And Contrast Jonathan Edward And Ben Franklin

Often in sermons ministers persuade their audience to behave in a spiritual or moral fashion. Such is the case in “Sinners of an Angry God” by Johnathan Edwards. Where John Edwards speaks upon where God sends sinners to hell who do not repent. Edwards wanted to educate puritans about learning that they will go to hell and its never ending if they do not stop sinning. John Edwards had a remarkable impact on his use of admonishing tone, “swallowed up in everlasting in hope of the Glory God.” Furthermore, the remarkable impact John Edwards had on his puritan audience it that if they do not repent they will be “swallowed up in everlasting destruction” as according to the text.

Furthermore, John Donne writes, “batter my heart” as a way of the speaker to assert his yearning to be made new in Christ. He endorses the idea of man being covered in sin by stating that he needs to be beaten clean and punished for his transgressions. It is evident that Donne is conscious of the reality of sin and it’s affects on

This meant that eventually, all sinners would be punished by God, which could be at any time. Edwards speaks of a wrathfull God, a God who by Puritan standards is considered forgiving for not letting all of humanity fall into the deepest pits of hell. Edwards reminds people that mankind is nothing compared to God and that that all of humankind is guilty and deserves to be punished. This appears similar to Bradstreet’s poem, but there are some

In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Johnathan Edwards uses rhetorical devices such as metaphors, similes and personifications. He uses these in order to scare his audience about Hell and to obey God and his message. In order to get people to follow his message and take his warnings, he uses tactics to scare people into in believing their unfortunate fates if they aren’t obedient to God and the Bible. Edwards uses descriptive images such as metaphors to compare his people to loathsome spiders. Edwards says that “The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider, or someone loathsome insect over the fire (Edwards Pg.

Therefore, everything that one implements is largely a work of God and his very plans. Calvin suggests some tenets of his religious ideology that are universally applicable in the modern day protestant religious doctrine. This came to be referred to as being, ‘the limited atonement’. However, there were others which are still debated in Christian faith. The limited atonement ideology suggests that Christ’s death did take sway the sins of the world and all who so faithfully repent will have their sins washed away[9].

Hucks guardians, Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, practice Christianity. Huck and Jim on the other hand, believe in superstition: they look for signs for answers rather than God. They look for bad signs in everything; if anything bad happened to them they 're sure to have a sign that was leading to it. Though their superstitions are silly, they do have reason to believe bad things will happen to them: they live in a world where nature is dangerous and people act with hatred. Huck has a realization that the Christian “good’’ isn 't really “good”; they believe Huck will be condemned to hell for saving Jim from slavery.

Evangelicals in the hands of an angry pastor. Human beings feel the need to be consistently right. We exemplify for what we believe, and want everyone to think as we do. That desideratum drove Jonathan Edwards to write his most acclaimed sermon in American history, which I can only describe as the most devious and manipulative exhortation. Edwards shows an unhealthy demand to get his audience to do as he aforementioned.

In the beginning of Romans Paul writes about the wrath of God and then about grace. “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness” (Romans 1:18). This statement shows that a person will be punished by God for their sin if they do not repent. “But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things” (Romans 2:2). Paul explains in this quote that the judgement of God is righteous.

Sinners in the hands of an Angry God is a Puritan writing. The Puritans believed in Puritism and believed that God is the everlasting savior that can do no wrong and we as humans are eternal sinners. Belief that few could truly reach heaven, and the rest were doomed to damnation made their lives a struggle with religious anxiety. The followers of Puritism did however know that the pen is mightier than the sword and wrote many stories of fiction, non-fiction, and autobiographies centered around self-reflection of oneself. Further into the stories there was much symbolism hidden in every sentence as the Puritans believed everything was a sign for God, for example if you got a papercut, God wants you to stop reading that book.

When Keller talks about the punishment theodicy in his writings says “Beginning of Genesis and concludes that all suffering can be justified because human kind rebelled against God, and the suffering of the world is just our deserved punishment for sin.” The Book of Genesis explains the general character of human suffering. Is suffering really punishment of God or does man himself cause the consequences of his actions on him by rebelling from God? The answer would be man’s rebellion against God is cause of

Foremost, Edwards has a powerful impact on his puritan audience because of his use of a cautionary tone. For example, “A day where in Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners”. This reveals that God can only give sinners second chances

(Genesis 1:26-30). Just like Adam we are all capable of doing God’s will but we must also live by faith and obedience and I think that’s our purpose (Genesis 2:15, 17). The Question of Morality- I believe to measure your ability to balance their “right and wrong” a person must have morals to act and live by. For instance don’t be fooled by people who doesn’t have your best interest at heart because they bad habits or judgment can put you in an uncompromising situation that could reflect on you badly (1 Corinthians 15:33). I live by confessing my sins to God and asking for his forgiveness.

The theme of injustice is illustrated in Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Margaret Atwood’s “Half-Hanged Mary,” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil” through the cruel ways people were being treated by others and themselves. God has a right to be angry at the human world. Humans make mistakes left and right, but we don’t sin in purpose. God forgives us for our sins, but the Author of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” said something different. Jonathan Edwards told many that even the smallest sin, even a sin that can easily be set right, deserves the same punishment as killing someone.

By speaking instead for God Himself when Edwards declares, “Men’s hands cannot be strong when God rises up”, a superstitious audience is left petrified with distress. Given the strength of religious values at the time of the speech’s deliverance, the idea of an inescapable wrath brought upon by sin would undoubtedly draw the colonies away from worldly matters, and instead towards the olden values which the colonies had been founded upon. As mentioned previously, Edwards possessed a remarkable reputation as a minister and orator at the time of the deliverance of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Through the establishment of credibility through ethos, Edwards allows his reputation to support his argument and convey validity to his audience. With these

As compelling as it is to agree with the persuasive argument Richard Dawkins made about how God was a being who was a cruel, “capriciously malevolent bully…” (Dawkins 1), whom was very judgmental and remorseless in the Old Testaments. You firstly have to put in the matter that even though the punishments given by God may seem merciless, it may have just been a way God had given us to redeem ourselves from the terrible deed that we had committed. We have to remember we are all the children of God and that makes God our Father. Children when given a punishment, sometimes will accept it because they know that is what they deserved, but most of the time they will be guaranteed to be angry and perceive their punishment as unfair or unreasonable.