In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards creates via great imagery the wrath of God upon sinners. Which image, metaphor, simile, personification, etc., did you find to be most effective in conveying Edwards' message? Explain how it made you feel and how you think the members of the congregation must have felt hearing this. (The deadline to post a response to this blog is midnight, Saturday, August 27, 2011.)
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The personification that created the most frightening image in my head was when Edward said the mouth of hell was opening. This made me fearful of disobeying God. I believe that this would have made the congregation scared as well because they want to go to Heaven and Edward was implying that they would be going to hell if they didn't revert back to the Puritan faith. Jonathon Edward definitely drew an amazingly descriptive image in the listeners' and my mind when he referred to the mouth of hell opening.
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