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Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was a sermon that was given during the year of 1741 in the time of The Great Awakening. Seeing that The Great Awakening was an evangelistic movement, Edwards used this speech to preach to people able God and Hell. In this speech, Jonathon described characteristics of a person who did not obey the rules and God and said that these types of people would go to Hell. He made Hell sound so terrible that it was like the people could not comprehend the thought of what Hell was like. With me being a Southern Baptist, I agree with the points Edwards preaches about. I agree with Jonathan because being a religious person, I believe Hell is a place that is hard to comprehend, I believe that the …show more content…

Just because God has the power to cast a person into Hell does not mean he wants to. God is a loving God. He loves his people and does everything in His power to give to His people. Giving is a two way street though. One cannot expect to get and get from God and not give anything in return. He wants and begs you to accept Him into your life and to surrender your life to Him. According to “Select Sermons” we are compared to worms. We think that it is easy for use to see a worm on the sidewalk and crush it. We think this because we see ourselves as being bigger than the worm. Yes, we are in fact bigger than a small worm, so we kill it. It is the same concept with God. He is bigger than us, He has the right to cast us into Hell or to save us and let us enter through the gates of Heaven. Finally I agree with Jonathon, because I do in fact believe that God’s wrath is as big as waters. As stated in the Old Testament from the Bible, Proverbs 20:2 “A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion; anyone who provokes him endangers himself.” A king’s wrath is and will always be feared. Everyone knows that the king has the power to do whatever he chooses to do against a servant who did not do what he or she was told. This is the same thing. God

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