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Angry God
Edward's Angry God
Jonathan Edward's most famous sermon is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." This 18th Century Puritan preached intense sermons that awakened his congregation to an awareness of their sinfulness and need for God. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" exemplifies Edward's stern religious beliefs. The sermon preaches a savage, cruel God powerful and capable, but not inclined, to cast humans down to hell.
The God Edward's describes is a savage God who torments the wicked. "The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire", this idea of
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