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in "sinners in the hands of an angry god", jonathan edwards captures the powerlessness of people and the precarious nature of their situation by suggesting that they are at every moment:

1: being pushed toward the edge of a dangerous cliff, below which are jagged rocks
2: being held over a lake of fire and brimstone by god, who may choose to drop them
3: in danger of being swept up by a flood like the one god sent during noah's time
4: likely to be turned into a pillar of salt, as lot's wife was, for their wicked and sinful ways