Compare And Contrast Sinner In The Hands Of Angry God

When it comes to comparing two things, there will always be the similarities and differences. An example of comparing two things can be found in a sermon of Jonathan Edwards, “Sinner in the Hands of Angry God,” and a poem “Wrath of God” by Luke Easter. In Jonathan’s sermon “Sinner in the Hands of Angry God” it talks about the ruthless wrath of God to those who did not believe in Him and this sermon was taken place in the First Great Awakening. While, “Wrath of God” who was written by a Christian poet, Luke Easter have similar meaning like the “Sinner in the Hands of Angry God,” but was written way after the First Awakening. Although both the poem and the sermon are not written by the same author or same type of media, there are some things

Jonathan Edwards sermon form is most likely a book, because it consists of different pages and chapters and have many paragraphs and parts, like they are divided into different parts and each parts talks about different points or in this sermon it’s the introduction which talks about examples of punishment that the Israelites are showing. In the body part there is the doctrine, explaining the points that the author made in the introduction and the applications, which it explains more about the wrath of God. While in “Wrath of God” by Luke Easter, the form is a poetry and it’s divided into different stanzas, with each stanza containing different points, like stanza explaining about suffering and God’s wrath, and another stanza explaining about accepting and obeying God. The form and structure are different, because one of them is most likely a book since it contains pages, and the other is a poem because it contains

why? Well the answer is yes and no at the same time. Was the sermon effective for its purpose and audience? Well, no. Most people think that it is effective to its purpose because the purpose is to show how cruel God’s wrath is so people won’t disobey Him or turn away from Him. But if you are trying to reach the non-believers or lost Christians, you should not approach them like that. An example would be in page 413 in the first paragraph it says, “he will inflict wrath without any pity: when God beholds the ineffable extremity of your case, and sees your torment to be so vastly disproportioned to your strength, and sees how your poor soul is crushed and sinks down, as it were into an infinite gloom” (Edwards). This shows that Edwards’ approach was straight to the point and deadly, for some people this type of approach is what it should be done, but for the non-believers or lost Christians this type of approach is the one that made them not close to God. Because this approach insulted their being and makes them believed that Christians are mean and cruel toward other, which is going against what Jesus has told us. Jesus told us to be nice to each other and respect them. When it comes to this type of situation (reaching the non-believers or lost Christians) we should approach them slowly and tell them the gospel by contextualizing. By slowly meaning, we tell them bits by bits not straight to the