During the Great Awakening, Johnathan Edwards rose greatly in popularity due to his powerful and menacing sermons that shook audiences and provided new views on the Christian religion. His most famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” expresses his belief that God is spiteful and full of rage, and will condemn any sinners to an eternal torture in hell. He depicts God as solely torturous and wanting only to punish those who have done wrong, thus appealing to fear and providing motivation to escape the wraths of God’s persecution by finding new faith in Christianity. This method of focusing on punishment and then subsequent ways to escape it while inciting fear is unnecessary and wrong in its
During the Great Awakening, Johnathan Edwards rose greatly in popularity due to his powerful and menacing sermons that shook audiences and provided new views on the Christian religion. His most famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” expresses his belief that God is spiteful and full of rage, and will condemn any sinners to an eternal torture in hell. He depicts God as solely torturous and wanting only to punish those who have done wrong, thus appealing to fear and providing motivation to escape the wraths of God’s persecution by finding new faith in Christianity. This method of focusing on punishment and then subsequent ways to escape it while inciting fear is unnecessary and wrong in its