Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God By Jonathon Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God was written by Jonathon Edwards. He wrote about how everybody will go to hell one day, and God holding you over a great bottomless pit with a slender rope. Puritans from the 18th century would take his sermon seriously. I would not have taken his sermon seriously at all, and thought of it as an ordinary piece of writing.

Edwards used resources of a language to give his audience a sense of fear and anguish. He explained how no one was going to be safe from God’s wrath, and everyone was doomed from the beginning. However, they are not sent down to hell because God felt like. “They deserve to be cast into Hell; so that divine Justice never stands in the Way...”(SHAG 35). They were cast into hell because

“Tis a great Furnace of Wrath, a wide and bottomless Pit”(SHAG 35). He uses the word wrath many times to show how God is angry at us for committing sinful acts. To further express God’s anger he wrote about how God was our executioner. “The bow of God’s Wrath is bent, and the Arrow made ready on the String and Justice bends the Arrow at your Heart”(SHAG 35). Even I can’t comprehend the thought of having God, our supposed savior, being our executioner. Even if someone committed a sin in the house of the lord, they probably would have thought that they were sneaky enough to not get caught. “...why you hadn’t gone to Hell since you got here in the House of God, provoking his pure Eyes by your sinful wicked Manner...”(SHAG 35). Although some people who committed the sin in the church thought that they were not going to be seen, they have committed it right in front of God’s eyes. However, Edwards becomes a bit hypercritical in his writing when he said that there was a way to be saved. “And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open...”(SHAG 35). All that writing about we are forever damned and there’s no way out sort of bit the dust when Edwards explains that our only way out of God’s wrath is his son Christ. He used many unique punctuation to further express his emotion in his sermon. The capitalization of the words wrath, arrow,

Instead of going to church every single Sunday in the 18th century, it is now not that necessary to go. Special meetings about what the church should do next can be postponed until a later date if something like a super bowl is on the same week. Furthermore, most people from the 21st century wouldn’t be scared of Edwards sermon at all. For instance, I’m not scared of what Edwards says in his sermon because I’m more open-minded and would not believe that God’s only intentions are to hold us over a fiery pit of hell and drop us in there. Others wouldn’t even believe a single word that he wrote because he is a bit hypercritical. I mean the first thing that Edwards stated was that we were all damned to hell from the beginning. Then, out of nowhere, he said that the only way to be saved from the wrath of God is to believe in