Saturday, December 7, 2013

Jonathan Edwards introduces two comparisons for God's wrath in paragraphs 2 and 5 of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Describe what is being...

Because
there are so many different editions of Edwards's sermon in publication, it is impossible to
know what paragraphs this question references. However, there are a few things that Edwards
compares God's wrath to, and here are two that have not been mentioned in other
answers:

  1. "There are black clouds of Gods wrath now hanging
    directly over your heads, full of the dreadful storm, and big with thunder; and were it not for
    the restraining hand of God, it would immediately burst forth upon you." Here, Edwards
    compares God's deep anger with sinners to the clouds of a destructive and dangerous thunderstorm
    that has yet to break. It is threatening, but it has not yet been unleashed.

  2. Edwards also likens God's fury to "a great furnace of wrath, a wide and
    bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over . . ." to compare it to
    traditional imaginings of Hell itself. Edwards implies that God could drop sinners into the
    fiery furnace at any time because his fury is equal to...

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