What is the central idea of the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

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apt title for his sermon, with "" expressing much of the core message (as well as) he
in it expresses. At its core, I would suggest that Edwards is dealing with three critical
Christian themes: God's power and omnipotence, the subject of sinfulness, and the subject of
damnation, all of which are, in this sermon, closely intertwined. Critical to this sermon is his
understanding of the sheer scale of which God operates, far beyond any human limits, so that
concepts such as justice and anger which exist in human terms, are magnified to a degree far
exceeding anything humans could easily comprehend. God is a being of justice, and also possessed
with wrath, and just as a King's justice and wrath (when combined) is terrible to whoever has
wronged him, then how much more terrible must God's wrath and justice be in comparison? This
theological viewpoint serves, I would suggest, as the foundation...