Oscar Cruz Jr. Cruz 1 BG Guttierez ENGL 2327 23 February, 2012 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God In the story Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God in holds a sermon on how your life should be led to with several techniques he tries to grab your attention with his grace and how you would go to heaven. Not everybody believes in god but in my point of view I believe that with the will of the lord everything is possible. Jonathan Edwards throughout the readings tried to scare the readers on how god can do things to people or grasp their life in any part of their time. It shouldn’t be understood in that way because in the bible I reads that god will come for you at the time he is ready. There is no need to be scared to go to heaven because heaven is a better and more peaceful place.
And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them. -John 16:1-4 This aforementioned reference to the words of Christ is what Jesus told His disciples about coming religious persecution. Jesus did not specify that the persecution would come from Jews, or Muslims or “so called” Christians. The Lord warned that “Men would think that they were offering service for God”.
Jesus says that all that is covered will be uncovered. This is just what occurs when Hester, Dimmesdale, and Pearl stand upon the scaffold. “He publicly, at noontide from the elevation of the scaffold, acknowledges the guilt he had seen God revealing to him in the darkness during his "visionary" night on
He’s letting the congregation know that once you’re over hell you can’t find a way to save yourself from going in. Last example is also located in paragraph three, Edwards says to the congregation, “There is nothing between you and hell but the air; it is only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up” (Edwards 3). He’s telling them that God is the one who decides if you go to hell or not. Jonathan Edwards uses anaphora for an affect. He’s trying to let them know that hell is a real place and they can end up there if they keep sinning so they need to be aware of what they’re doing.
But the Savior taught that true freedom comes only from following Him: “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:31–32). God gives commandments for our benefit. They are loving instructions for our happiness and for our physical and spiritual well
Ecclesiastes is the book in the bible that talks about vanity. It explains in detail all the things you can do or say that are vanity. The author of Ecclesiates is trying to stress to us that God wants us to be the ones living in the light instead of being in the darkness. The good instead of being the evil and walking in his footsteps instead of being the sinner. There are many ways we can walk in his way such as keeping the ten commandments and really trying your hardest to be the least sinful you can be.
For Edwards this included his view on religion. He believed that “There is nothing between you and Hell but the air; it is only the power and the mere pleasure of God that holds you up.” (41) He wanted to convince to repent, to be reborn in Christ. Last but not least, he wanted to save sinners from a decent into Hell’s fury. The moral of his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was therefore that if sin is committed, a persons tie with God is broken and they will fall into the hands of Hell. Edward’s diction and tone gives his listeners and readers an eerie feeling, a fear for sin, and an awakening for the wrath of God about to come.
In gods eyes a sin is a sin, he had a universal way of looking at things. To God it doesn’t matter who you are or what you did on earth. If you sinned, then you were to be punished. Even a priest wasn’t safe from his eternal suffering if he deserved it. God made sure he had a certain outline of rules to be followed so no one could say I didn’t know.
I look around me and, lo! On every visage a black veil” (Hawthorne 275). Mr. Hooper is saying that everyone else sins just like he has, yet he is judged more than anyone because he is a reverend and also because he wears the black veil. He is not afraid to say that he sins and make peace with his mistakes. Also, because of Mr. Hooper’s belief in predestination, the belief that an elect group of people are selected by God to go to Heaven, his sins do not matter.
The Bible says that we are chosen by God and given a purpose. According to 1 Peter 2:9. It is important that we see ourselves the way God sees us and then live in obedience to Him. God knows who we really are. He loves us and created us for a purpose.