Rhetorical Analysis Of Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

The Puritan belief has majorly shaped many places of the country using fear to convert people into their christian domination. They use orthodoxic ideas and threats against people who do not believe in their religion or lifestyle. They typically bring biblical references into it. In his famous sermon, Jonathan Edwards alters the readers' understanding of Puritan ideas in order to convince them to repent for their sins by using emotional appeals, accusatory language, and disturbing metaphors. The sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Johnathan Edwards, is about a man who discusses his personal belief in religion in a way to convince others that his religion is key. Edwards uses rhetorical appeals, tones, and figurative language to

He continued to talk to the sinners in a degrading way to provide them with the ability to feel the fear of what God will do to them upon their arrival to death. “They deserve to be cast into hell…it makes no objection against God using his power at any moment to destroy them…justice calls aloud for an infinite punishment of their sins.” This describes how the sinners deserve the wrath of God with constant accusations, using their sins against them, adding how god would not hesitate to use his power to destroy them. This tone is also pointed out in “The Great Awakener.” “The perfect orthodoxy…Edwards could not admit of secondary causes such as free will… and the preservants of the saints.” Edwards is described as physically and verbally accusatory towards other religious groups and towards sinners. He believes they should and will get what they deserve. Edwards accuses the sinners in many ways, each time describing how they could die by the wrath of God every

He uses them to develop stronger ideas of what God can do to people. Those people who do not praise or look up to him. Edwards compares sinners (or humans) to God by giving the reference of something that humans have control over, as if humans have its life in its hands.Edwards uses the phrase, “We find it easy to tread anf crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth.” Using this metaphorical slang, Edwards uses it to describe how our idea of a worm is how we are seen in the eyes of God and how easily he could just stomp on us. Humans have no ability to fight against God like a worm does a human. in “The Great Awakener” it is described what Edwards wanted and what he was searching for. This description consisted of more metaphors or even biblical references. “Edwards is searching for the “images and shadows of divine things”... New England thinkers shed of the baggage of original sin.” Edwards uses this to give faith and sympathy to the reader, so they might ask for forgiveness. He wants them to know what to search for. He uses the line “New England..baggage of original sin.” tell describe how heavy sin really is and provides a blissful idea of what following god is like. There are often metaphors by Edwards to explain to people his belief and scare them into the expansion of this belief. He uses this device to exaggerate his personal experiences and