In order to be seen as worthy in God's eyes you would have to be taught to be god-fearing at a very young age. God's extent to his wrath doesn't exclude little children. He only wants the people who has been loyal to him 100% to accompany him in heaven. If you are not his "child", then you are a a child to the devil. He completely disowns you, which like I've said earlier why be loyal to someone, who when you sin they are done with you.

God brings his wrath to the extent of what you have done. And with that he shows no pity to what he will do to you. Going off the title "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", even though God created us and put us on the earth, when he is unhappy with what we have done with ourselves in the world he created, he shows no mercy. He has set expectations and once you don't live up to them, you feel his wrath. Having expectations is one thing, but to be so angry when your expectations aren't met to where you banish to hell is another thing. With this being said nobody can live up to God's expectations.

Edward has mentioned "pit full of fires", quite a bit in his sermon. Not only does he mention the pit full of fire repeatedly but when mentioned it is always in correlation to "being in the hand of that God". I see this as saying the pit of fire represents the paying for what you have done that has hurt God. And when repeating that is is God who is holding you over that pit shows that he truly does have the power, and our mere existence here is to please him and not to sin.

In Christianity God ultimately holds all the power, he is who Christians look up to. When Christians are going through a tough time in their life they call to God. But why would someone want to call to God when if you sin, he sees you as "worthy of nothing else". You become an abomination, and nothing in his eyes. It's just confusing to me to look up to a God that will, say he created you, but then say you're an abomination and can burn in the pits of hell.

Being that this is one of the first things Jonathan Edwards chose to start off his sermon shows his stance on religion. Just by this first paragraph it is shown that he believes God has the ultimate power. He is the only thing that keeps us up, and the only person that we can rely on. Starting off his sermon with sort of an aggressive stance on his religious beliefs through me into a loop and I wasn't necessarily expecting. But also the time period had to come into consideration, where religion was everything, and almost everyone was god-fearing.