Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Rosie Charles
AP ENG III
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God


This article/passage, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, there is a complete and utter appeal to pathos, which is emotion. This whole article’s purpose, it seems, is to ignite emotions in people who reads and/or hears the speech/article. In this article, two different kinds of emotions seem to ignite. The emotions are both positive and negative. Certain things in this article, readers would totally agree upon. With other items in the piece of literature, most people would disagree.


There are some very positive things to this article. The most positive and repetitive piece of information was that God was “The Almighty”. Most people that believe in God and Jesus Christ know and believe that God is the one and only God. They know that God is like no other and that no other force and even challenge God. That is exactly what is expressed in this passage. For example, “…if your strength were ten thousand times greater that it is, yea, ten thousand times greater than the strength of the stoutest, sturdiest devil in hell, it would be nothing to withstand or endure it.” “It” meaning the power and grace of God.


“Whose wrath it is” it is the wrath of the infinite God.” This is a quote that myself, and other readers, would disagree about. In the passage, through everything God is angry. This seems very wrong because, according to the bible, God is a loving, caring, and forgiving God. Yes, he has a wrath. Yet, the wrath is only taken upon someone when God becomes angry. In this article God is mad at all times, it seems. Another thing that spikes up negative emotions is that the writer believes that God shall “laugh and mock.” This is very controversial for the same reasons as the fact above. My last example that the writer spikes bad emotions is that believing that God shows no mercy. That is not true. No one on the earth is perfect, which makes us all sinners. If God Almighty had no mercy, wouldn’t we all been in hell by time we sinned the very first time?


This article is a wonderful article for analysis and annotation. For one is it spikes a lot of emotion. But not just any kind of emotion. It brings out both agreement and disagreement. Even though I disagree, I admire the writer. Most writers can’t establish two completely opposite emotions in one passage. Yet, at the same time, I somewhat “despise” the writer because some information that was stated just contradicts itself, and doesn’t make since at all. So what side are you on?