Question

Throughout his sermon, Jonathan Edwards discusses people’s relationship with God. How does Edwards change or refine the idea of God and people’s relationship with God from the beginning to the end of the excerpt? Cite evidence from the text to support your response.
The given Plato answer is:

Edwards uses God as a supreme supernatural being who watches over everything everyone does. He judges everyone and despises nonbelievers. The sermon is for nonbelievers. Initially, Edwards speaks about the reason behind his sermon. He then begins to speak to the nonbelievers about hell and how God can choose to send these non believers to hell eternally if he so wishes. A line which demonstrates this view is "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, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the

Answer 1

Answer:

He shows that people who have a relationship with God are those who attend churches and do his will, for that reason they will be saved, but people who do not go to church do not maintain a relationship with God, are doomed to sin and will receive eternal da*nation.

Explanation:

In his speech Jonathan Edwards wishes to reach non-believers by putting themselves in a situation of fear of going to hell and therefore redemption to God and coexistence in the church. Edwards wished the church to be more faithful and therefore, in his speech, he showed God as a good and merciful being to those who follow him, but those who do not follow him, do not go to church and do not establish a relationship with God, are corrupted by sin and will not be saved, but will live forever in hell suffering forever.