Read The Excerpt From Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God. Yea, God Is A Great Deal More Angry With Great Numbers That Are Now On Earth; Yea, Doubtless With Many That Are Now In This Congregation, Who It May Be Are At Ease, Than He Is With Many Of Those (2023)

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What is paragraph 7 of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God? ›

7. The congregation should not take false comfort from finding “no visible means of death at hand.” Sinners walk on a rotten floor over the pit of hell and the floor could collapse unexpectedly at any moment. Indeed, God has many ways of killing a person in the course of an ordinary day.

9. All wicked Men's Pains and Contrivance they use to escape Hell, while they continue to reject Christ, and so remain wicked Men, don't secure 'em from Hell one Moment.

Jonathan Edwards's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, preached on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut, is an appeal to 'sinners' to recognize that they will be judged by God and that this judgment will be more fearful and painful than they can comprehend.

In paragraph six of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," what does Edwards suggest about spiritual reform? He suggests that church and state should be separated. He suggests that not all people who sin suffer eternal damnation.

Wrath, Mercy, and Grace

Throughout the sermon, Edwards emphasizes that God loathes all human beings because they are not worthy of him, he's angry with them for failing him, and he owes them no mercy. This attitude can be summed up by the notion that God's primary characteristic is his wrath.

As a preacher, Edwards uses his sermon to do what? Frighten his congregation into seizing the oppurtunity of salvation. What is the central message of the sermon? The only hope for salvation is through Christian rebirth.

On July 8, 1741, theologian Jonathan Edwards spoke the words of the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” at a Congregational church in Enfield.

In summary, Jonathan Edwards' “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is a powerful and influential sermon that vividly portrays the wrath of God and the consequences of sin, while emphasizing the urgent need for repentance and salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.

The sermon given to the Puritans by Jonathan Edwards was meant to evoke fear, lament, guilt, and motivation to be the most benevolent one can be.

It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath that you are held over in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as against many of the damned in hell.

What does Edward say sinners can obtain towards the end of the sermon? ›

Towards the end of the sermon, what does Edwards say sinners can obtain? What must sinners do to obtain these things? Edward says that the sinners can obtain mercy and salvation. They must repent to obtain those things.

Edward wants his audience to have a change in heart and to turn to God or become closer to God. He is warning the readers by using a passionate or intense tone to explain how God's wrath will affect sinners and to make them fearful.

O sinner! consider the fearful danger you are in! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath that you are held over in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as against many of the damned in hell.

What two creatures does Edwards compare sinners to in his sermon? He compares them to a snake and a spider. Why do you think he chose these two creatures? He chose the spider because like humans when put over a fire both will do anything to get away from it before dying.

The concrete image of a bent bow, of God's wrath represents how close God really is to unleashing his wrath upon the people. The concrete image that appears in the reader's head is a burning furnace. The furnace represents the heat and Stygian setting of hell.

In the sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathon Edwards utilizes rhetorical devices such as, personification, similes, and metaphors to persuade his audience into obeying God.