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    Cheaters in the hands of an angry student During the past weeks of school we've talked about the techniques that Jonathan Edward used in his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", in which Edward's uses dramatic comparisons to portray the wrath of god, in a way that people of the time could grasp. Edward's would use methods that illustrated what would happen if they continued to sin and disobey god. The original intent behind my sermon, is to shed light on cheating and to make my audience

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    In "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards, his speech uses imagery,personification, and alliterationto persuade us. In Jonathan Edwards speech imagery was a essential part to persuade people.This gives us a sence of feeling towards the speech. For example, he says"it is nothing but mere pleasure t hat keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasoting destruction".This shows us easily we can fall down into destruction. When we swallow something it can easily be gone

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    In Jonathan Edwards’ sermon, “Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God”, he explains what will happen to a person who has wrongful actions. He continues to talk about Hell, forgiveness, and wickedness. God is angry, he abhors all sinners. No person wants to spend eternity in Hell. Edwards’ imagery is very disturbing. An image in Edwards’ sermon talks about how ones wickedness will continue to push them closer to Hell. God decides how the afterlife is spent. At any point it could be too late to

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    Composition 10 August 2015 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is a sermon delivered by the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards during the Great Awakening, a period of religious revival. The sermon is intended to restore religious convictions of the Puritans, which he felt was weakening, for people in the congregation. Edwards’ purpose in the sermon is to impress upon his audience the urgency of redemption from sin in order to persuade sinners to repent and obtain

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    exactly this to a group of Puritans in his most famous speeches, Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God. Edwards started preaching when he was just five-years-old and was very devoted to it and to his religion. In his speech, Edwards uses pathos to persuade his audience to listen to him. “If God should only withdraw his hand from the floodgate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and the wrath of God, would rush forth…” (Edwards 109). This is an example of pathos

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    supreme God, is just one of the many religious views of the puritans. The Puritan were a group of people in the 1600’s that believed they were chosen by God himself. In the two text “upon the burning of our house” by Anne Bradstreet and “Sinners in the hands of an angry God” by Jonathan Edwards (both Puritan writers) you see views that are very similar and some that differ. Some of the things that these two writers have in common are the belief that worldly things being placed before God is a sin

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    "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards, Question 7 7a. In the sermon, “from Sinners In The Hands of an Angry God”, by Jonathan Edwards, there is passion within the text that he believes strongly about the multiple tenets of Puritanism, one of the Puritan philosophical beliefs can be seen as Backsliding. As explained, it would not really matter if compared a person who strayed from the path or a person who has “reformed life in many things, and may had religious affections, and

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    Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Reading Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God was intense. Thinking about God being mad at us or wanting to punish us is a scary thought. The society we live in today often judges those living the Christian lifestyle. People are often put down for praising God in public or simply talking about what God has done for them. Living a good christian lifestyle is worth it; you may be judged but it is worth it, not only because he will punish you for your sins, but also

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    emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. This paralyzing emotion, identified as fear, often takes control of one's life, forcing them in or out of a situation. In the sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” the author, Jonathan Edwards, takes advantage of the power of fear to use it as a persuasive technique against his congregation. Although other forms of motivation may be effective, the way in which Jonathan Edwards uses the fear

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    Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Jonathan Edward’s passionate and revolutionary sermon ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’ played a major and influential role during the Great Awakening. In the 1700’s, the Christian community’s church attendance drop by half. In an attempt to renew the colonist’s relationship with God, Jonathan Edwards gave a powerful sermon revolving around how they are dangling over the depths of Hell. Within his sermon, he states that they will be severely judged

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