Humanity is portrayed as depraved. It is man’s wickedness that makes the wrath of God burn. Humanity is also portrayed as frail and wholly at the mercy of God. God can destroy everyone quickly and easily if he so chooses.

Edwards views God as the puppet master who has a grand plan for humanity. He believes that any moment, on a whim, God may destroy us. In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Edwards uses images to show the reader this belief.

The additional traits that Edwards attribute to god as the sermon progresses were angry and vengeful. He also made God to be highly judgmental and punishing. He showed God to be waiting for putting the sinners into the fire. I hope that this is the answer that has actually come to your desired help.

Terms in this set (10) Why, according to Edwards, is God wrathful toward the Puritan people of New England? What phrase does Edwards use to describe the force that stays God’s hand from smiting us in his wrath? the sovereign pleasure of God. What is the only alleviation in God’s anger that people can expect?

Edwards believed that there were too many hypocrites and unbelievers being accepted into church membership; therefore, he developed a rigid screening process. This controversy was a large contributing factor behind his dismissal from the Northampton church in 1750.

How goes the pace of unconditional election during the Great Awakening? It is quickening.

Biblical passages John 15:16: “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.”

Irresistible grace (or efficacious grace) is a doctrine in Christian theology particularly associated with Calvinism, which teaches that the saving grace of God is effectually applied to those whom He has determined to save (the elect) and, in God’s timing, overcomes their resistance to obeying the call of the gospel.

The five points of the Remonstrance asserted that: (1) election (and condemnation on the day of judgment) was conditioned by the rational faith or nonfaith of man; (2) the Atonement, while qualitatively adequate for all men, was efficacious only for the man of faith; (3) unaided by the Holy Spirit, no person is able to …

Comparison among Protestants

Along with Anglicanism, the Reformed and Presbyterian (Calvinist) churches, Methodism, and the Baptist churches, Lutheranism is one of the five major branches of Protestantism.

Lutherans believe that whoever has faith in Jesus alone will receive salvation from the grace of God and will enter eternity in heaven instead of eternity in hell after death or at the second coming of Jesus.

Lutherans and Calvinists disagreed on predestination. Lutherans and Calvinists disagreed on predestination.

Lutheranism. Lutherans historically hold to unconditional election to salvation. However, some do not believe that there are certain people that are predestined to salvation, but salvation is predestined for those who seek God. Lutherans believe Christians should be assured that they are among the predestined.