An Angry God Annotation

    Hell is said to be the worst place to ever exist, and it is greatly feared about on earth and in the minds of people. “Hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them and swallow them up,” this illustrates personification in giving the flames of hell the live ability to hold and swallow us. It portrays how we will be consumed by our own sins if we do not act on them to better ourselves. If we let our sins pile up they will weigh us down and we will eventually be brought down to hell to pay for our wrong doings.

( 41). Jonathon Edwards points this out as an emotional appeal to fear by implying that God can send anyone to hell at any moment without a warning. He does this to terrify his members into believing in God. Edwards also includes pathos when he states, “Yea, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down into hell” (43). He uses pathos by explaining you should go to Hell if you are not converted to once again scare his members into being born again.

Throughout Jonathan Edwards’s sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, he strategically utilizes an immense variety of different rhetorical and literary devices to not only bring his sermon to life, but also increase the persuasiveness of his message. For instance, in the fifth paragraph, he creates a simile illustrating that,“the wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given” (Edwards 2). The simile along with his use of descriptive language intensifies his message as well as emphasizes God’s omnipotence. By emphasizing the omnipotence of God, he instills fear within the audience hoping that they realize the importance of having a connection

What's more horrifying than the vivid description and statement that you're probably going to hell if you don't change your ways? For most of the audience present during Jonathon Edwards' famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", nothing. Edwards effectively uses intense imagery and tone to scare the audience in his famous sermon. This sermon can be seen as both fearful and hopeful. The fear Edwards inspired in the congregation had many crying and others contemplating their life.

Fear is something that is sometimes used in order to manipulate people and in this case fear is being used in order to convince people into becoming religious or into becoming a better person. For example, “... Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fine of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much as against you, as against many of damned in hell”(Edward, para, 90). The author warns the sinners that they should be aware of the sins they have committed. He gives a description of how god has the sinners hanging from hell in order to put fear into the reader. By doing so it scares the reader and might convince them into either becoming a better person or becoming religious. The author easily manipulates the reader by warning the reader of what's going to happen if they don’t change. He also tries to use this as a way to convert them into religion. Edward exhibits a strong use of persuasion to try and get people to either believe or change into better people. Everyone is in danger of going to hell but, it's up to them to decide whether they're going to change. One way to change or manipulate them is by using fear.

He tries to explain his point of view of Hell so we can have an idea of what and how is the afterlife. Every bad decision or action will be paid up in hell. Everyone in hell is divided based on the relationship between the offense committed and the punishments deserved. He wants people to understand and identify themselves with the importance of life and a person’s relationship with God. Based on committing good actions and decisions, we must leave to look for salvation in the afterlife. The action of doing the right thing is what lead you to better outcomes and fewer punishments in the

He’s serious, thought Cecilia. He really believes he’s going to hell, as if hell is an actual physical place, not an abstract idea. She went to say Thank goodness for eternal damnation! but she didn’t. He was referring to God in a chillingly familiar

Throughout the sermon, Edwards uses figurative language along with imagery to frighten

In Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards delivers a powerful sermon to his congregation about the horrors of hell. Throughout the piece, the author explains there is no escape from “eternal destruction,” and one must join God to reach salvation (para. 27). Edwards uses dark, gruesome imagery along with gloomy diction in order to instill fear into the audience, and persuade them to more devoutly worship God.

The speaker of “Sinners In The Hand of an Angry God” is Jonathan Edwards a preacher and a pastor. The occasion of the story is to inform the reader to value life and don’t take God lightly as he is the creator of heaven and earth. The sermon tells us the audience as christian and sinners are supposed to fear God because he will judge you on the day he comes to save people. The purpose of the sermon tells the readers that being in hell is a terrifying, painful, and scary place to be and God is the only way to escape that. God chooses to hang you over the pits of hell and drop you in or at any moment.

This quote is referring to hell being nothing but a world of fire and intense heat. A place where those who do evil things go after death.

This passage is a warning, but also an encouragement. As Paul begins to talk about the righteous judgment of God he takes two different ways of approach. The first is of the Christian. He shows us to look forward to the day of when we meet our LORD, that we will be with Him always. He also encourages one to persevere in this continuance of faith in verse 7 pushing us to not waiver, and to no matter what come, live for the Lord and keep your eyes on Him. Then there's the warning, and this warning has two sides. The first is obvious, to those who do not follow the Lord they will spend eternity in Hell. In anguish and pain for eternity. So this warning is also a call to repentance for the unbelievers. The second warning is for us, we as a Christians

Edwards is telling his congregation that it only by the grace of god that people are not suffer the eternal agony of hell. If people stay clear of any sins they may stay lifted by the hands of their merciful god. Many of early settlers of the new world came traveled seeking religious freedom and wanted to live a wholesome life under their vengeful but merciful god. People had be drawn to this because that what they wanted to here. They want reassurance that they are not sinning and they are safe from "lake of burning brimstone". In his sermon he illustrate how scary and dreadful hell. He says this hell is "dreadful pit of the glowing flames" and if you sin you'll be heavy as lead and it will weight you down close to hell. For the people at

What is he telling them? He is speaking of the godlessness and the wickedness. What the signs shown in the sinful world? They are godlessness and wickedness. What is godlessness? This is not retaining God in your heart. What is wickedness? Wickedness is the sinful actions because you do not want to retain God in your heart.

In this work he uses hell to scare people into believing that if you do something wrong that you will go to hell. This scared the people because most people didn't know better and they really thought hat was a place below the surface of the earth where one wold go spend eternity in a fire pit. He was saying that if you believe and repent you will be saved, but if not then you will burn.