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In the opening of the sermon an analogy is stated between the ability of a person to crush a worm with the ability of God to cast his enemies to hell (First Paragraph). This supports the main idea of how God is a superior being, able to freely decide people’s fate. The author’s persistent imagery of Gods abhorrence towards sinners is continually mentioned as a form of repetition, to cause a vivid depiction of Gods wrath in the audience’s perspective of him. This is illustrated when it’s stated how unconverted men walk over the pit of hell and how God has unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world (Paragraph 3). He also introduces a metaphor where he associates Gods wrath as a bent bow with an arrow aiming towards your heart; this again typifies Gods supremacy to take away sinners existence unless they convert (Paragraph 6).
While Edwards was explaining the angry Wrath of God he states, “The fire pent up in their own hearts is struggling to break out. ”(Edwards). This example of evidence states that people have “fire” in their hearts but, the fire is hatred that has not had a chance to let out. As Edwards was discussing the fury of God “He will crush you under his feet without mercy; he will crush out your Blood, and make it fly, and it shall be sprinkled on his garments, so as to stain all his raiment. ”(Edwards).
The majority of this sermon is dedicated to the audience whom Edwards views with repulsion. He uses imagery to describe the awful Hell that he believes the people in the congregation will end up in and calls it a “great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath” (Paragraph 8). He illustrates the never ending state of Hell in order to frighten everyone in the audience. He sees each and every person as damned and honestly believes they deserve be sent to Hell to burn for all eternity. He feels no sympathy for them because they are completely free to do what they want and he knows that what they do with their free will is commit sin.
First, he builds the point that all sin builds up against you and the wrath related with that can be released at any time which is a completely logical point based on an audience who both believe in God and Hell. Next, he points out that you will suffer in front of the inhabitants of Heaven, and this particular audience would never want to be humiliated in front of such an esteemed group. Last, he compares sinners to those who have achieved salvation by mentioning how the saved will be feasting while the sinners will be suffering. “To see so many others feasting, while you are pining and perishing!” These people, like any others, would prefer to be among the better people.
This shows how he currently feels towards his congregation, for whom the sermon was written. He obviously feels that they
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He also said that God is so angry at us that he is the only thing keeping us from falling into hell, and God will just drop us in hell (103).
“What make ole Satan for follow me so? Satan ain’t got notin’ for do wid me. Hold your light. Hold your light. Hold your light on Canaan’s shore.”
He starts by introducing some facts about him by saying that he is the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and describes the organization’s importance. Another strategy is that he continues to compare himself to great leaders, saying “Just as the eight-century prophets…Just as the Apostle Paul” and “Just as Socrates.” He also justifies the accusation of being an extremist by stating, “Was not Jesus an extremist in love? … Was not Amos an extremist for justice?
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He goes on to say, “I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into court when I come into
Education Malcolm X did not graduate from a college, but he was aware of the difficulties of the American society in his time. Also, he wanted to erase the paradigm that black people were not educated, indeed he learned all his education in one of the toughest places to learn: jail. When he realized that he was not able to write simple English, he decided to improve, inspire by, John Elton Bembry as he refers as “Bambi” and the heavy emphasis on rehabilitation that existed in the jail, but that inspiration and the time he spent reading his books opened a bunch of new ideas, a whole new world and “freedom”, as he describes, “I have never been so truly free in my life”, and by education and discipline he became one of the most important public
Edwards advises his audience, “God stands ready to pity you; this is a day of mercy; you may now cry with some encouragement of obtaining mercy. But once this day is past, your most lamentable and dolorous cries and shrieks will be in vain…” (21). Throughout his sermon, Edwards provides fearful imagery to frighten the people, but now he gives them hope of lessening God’s wrath.
The book of Revelation primarily concerns the Second Coming of Christ and the last days. His Second Coming will be as judge of the world, unlike His first coming when He came to die for man's sin. Several hundred years before the Lord came to earth to die on the cross,
