Sinners Follow Up Post

       In the modern world in which we live in today many would respond differently to the Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God sermon delivered by Jonathan Edwards. "The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow..."(97). If someone today had read this line who was moderately religious they would be decently frightened. In the seventeen hundreds though religion consumed nearly ninety percent of an average person's life. This line would have terrified all who were listening especially when uttered from the lips of a religious official. "God has laid himself under no obligation by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment."(96). This line though would demoralize all who would be slightly religious, no matter what day or age. Overall, every one who is religious would be afraid of god's wrath in one form or another after being exposed to this sermon.