Within the introduction to “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, it explains how powerful and moving Jonathan Edwards’s sermon of 1741was. According to the video, this speech was the most important ever given in the Americas. It was so important, that today it is the only sermon included in American Literature books. Back when it was first delivered, it struck the New England colonies like lightning. It changed these places forever, sparking controversy and spiritual rebirth. When the speech is retold, even those who deal with extremely graphic pictures and literature can be numbed with terror.
What Jonathan Edwards said in his sermon sparked so much controversy, therefore, the speech must have had to been brutal and graphic. Him being a religious person, he probably thought the new colonists were taking everything for granted. He might have thought many people were ignoring religion and what happens after death. In this aspect, he might have preached almost unreal details of what hell is like and what God would do to you if you went there. If he was speaking in the aspect of everyone ignoring religion, he might have blamed the people and described that God would send them right to hell. In whichever way he preached it, it definitely was crucial in the reformation of the church in colonial America.
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