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Worksheets"Sinners in the hands of an angry god" sermon
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
A Puritan man who believes humanity is losing it's faith and connection with god.
The author of The Catcher in the Rye.
A famous black man who freed many slaves risking his life in the underground railroad.
The 15th president of Cuba who had a strange obsession with dairy.
Why did Jonathan Edwards deliver this sermon to the congregation at his church?
An April fools joke.
He thought god was angry at humanity, and wanted to spread a message to come back to Christianity.
He is a communist spy from Russia trying to scare people away from Christianity.
His family didn't love him.
What was the sermon about, what was the purpose?
The sermon was written to use propaganda methods to spread a message of fear of god to try getting people to get closer to Christianity.
The sermon was written in an attempt to gather more donations for the church because people in the local area were experiencing a rising rate of poverty. It was about the suffering of sinners.
The sermon was a propaganda piece to try and advocate against women's suffrage.
In an attempt to distract from civil war, the sermon was written as a distraction from conflicts to try and prevent america's separation from Britain.
What is a good explanation for the strange wordings and language used in the sermon?
Jonathan Edwards is simply very illiterate, and he just wrote a bad piece.
Jonathan Edwards is a very smart man, and this sermon was written in a time of old English and old grammar, which makes it hard to understand to some of the new generations.
Johnathan Edwards was trying to spread an idea that even a dumb man could see his points.
Jonathan Edwards was baiting grammar Nazi's on the internet to laugh at their reactions.
Why does Jonathan Edwards deliver his sermon to the congregation with such aggression and anger in his voice?
He is a fast-tempered man who is very impatient.
He had a very bad evening and was taking it out at the crowd.
He was using it to try to shock, and support his fearful ideas.
He was a youngest child, and wanted to be very loud because he has attention seeking issues.
Why was the sermon so long?
Jonathan Edwards had written out a very long script for the sermon because he had a lot of complaints about the degradation of christian values.
Jonathan Edwards spoke the sermon with no script and was Rambling about a lot of unrelated things.
Jonathan Edwards was possessed by Satan who was trying too hard to get people to be afraid of god, in an attempt to distance people from him.
Jonathan Edwards talks very slowly and had to repeat himself a few times when he lost track of his thoughts.
Which of these quotes is taken from the sermon?
"if you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, people will believe it."
"you're an inspiration for birth control"
"stop it Patrick!"
"it is that natural men are held in the hand of god"
Why is "sinners in the hand of an angry god" such a famous sermon?
it caused the great divide in the middle ages between the Christian churches of Europe.
it sparked the height of the great awakening in the 1700's in Europe.
it angered the Ku Klux Klan greatly because they felt insulted by the sermon.
it was the inspiration for the Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack.
what is the inspiration for this sermon?
Jonathan Edwards is an old man who thinks video games cause violence.
Jonathan Edwards was bitter after being attacked by the mafia on his way to work at the parlor in New York.
Jonathan Edwards was raised very religiously and thought that an intense Christian devotion was a very important step to salvation. Which in itself is also a Christian belief.
Jonathan Edwards thinks that racism is making Christians hateful, and participated in the peaceful violence in Portland to protest it.
What year did Jonathan Edwards finish his education?
1722
1624
2552
1942
Bonus question: Where's waldo?
he's exploring the Andromeda galaxy.
he's eating bread sticks at olive garden.
where's my pizza?
ram ranch.
he's convincing ant man to go inside Thanos and expand.
for all the marbles.
read very carefully.
cheese?
cheese
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