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Jonathan Edwards. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. For Edwards, science, reason, and observation of the universe confirmed for him the existence of God. A brilliant thinker and speaker, Edwards entered Yale at 13 and became a minister 12 years later. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Jonathan Edwards
“Sinners in the
Hands of an
Angry God”
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• For Edwards, science, reason, and observation of the universe confirmed for him the existence of God.
• A brilliant thinker and speaker, Edwards entered Yale at 13 and became a minister 12 years later.
• His passionate, yet frightening, sermons helped to bring about The Great Awakening,
• a time when many who attended church were not “saved” or could testify to an emotional encounter with God and His grace.
• “Unregenerate” Christians were those who attended church and accepted church teachings but had not been “born again” by God’s grace.
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• He was dismissed as pastor in 1750 becausehis sermons were tooextreme; he “called out”those in the congregationwho were leading lives“relapsing into sin.” Ironically, Edwards diedof a smallpox vaccination,a modern medical proceduremany Puritans consideredsinful.
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On the one hand, Edwards believed “in reason and learning, the value of independent intellect, and the power of the human will.”
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“On the other hand, he believed in the lowliness of human beings in relation to God’s majesty and the ultimate futility of merely human efforts to achieve salvation.”
“Edwards, as ‘the last Puritan,’ stood between Puritan America and modern America. Tragically, he fit into neither world.”
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Figurative Language in
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
By Jonathan Edwards
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“The devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the
flames gather and flash about them…” (79).
Imagery
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“The devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames
gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them and
swallow them up…” (79).
Personification
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“…the fire pent up in their own hearts is struggling to break
out…” (79).
Personification
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“The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow
of your heart, and strains the bow…” (109).
Metaphor
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“The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a
spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, …” (81).
Simile
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“…you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the
most hateful venomous serpent is in ours” (81).
Simile
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“…it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of
the fire of wrath…” (81).
metaphor
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“…if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly
descend and plunge into a bottomless gulf…” (80).
Imagery
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“The wrath of God is like great waters that are damned for the
present…” (80).
Simile
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“…if your strength were ten thousand times greater than it is, yea, ten thousand times greater that the
strength of the stoutest, sturdiest devil in hell, it would be nothing to
withstand or endure it” (80).
Simile
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“That world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone, is extended
abroad under you” (80).
Imagery/ metaphor
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“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead” (80).
Simile
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“…your own care and prudence, …would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of Hell, than a spider’s web would have to stop a fallen rock” (80).
Simile
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“You have offended Him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did
his prince…” (81).
Simile
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“…his wrath towards you burns like fire;” (81).
Simile
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“…they would avail no more to keep you from falling than the thin
air to hold a person that is suspended in it” (80).
Simile
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“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…” (81).
metaphor