The Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

Have you ever stood up and took action for what you believe? Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, but the Catholic Church would not let him. His solution was to make the Church of England. A group of people that followed the church were called the Puritans, but they did not agree with what the Church was teaching. They broke off, and started practicing their own new form of worship which was not well liked by the Church of England. The Church of England started punishing the Puritans for it. The Puritans decided to risk their lives and go to the New World, so they could practice their faith freely. At the center of their faith was God, they thought He was both merciless, angry, and vengeful, yet loving, kind, and gracious; they also thought their life was predestined, and God's grace was the only thing that could save them.
The Puritans believed that God was an angry, but merciful God. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, a short story, shows a good example of this. In the story it said, "There are black clouds of God's wrath now hanging directly over your heads, full of the dreadful storm, and big with thunder, and were it not for the restraining hand of God it would immediately burst forth
In the story, the Fly represents a sinner who didn't believe, the Wasp represents a Sinner but they believe in God, and the Spider was Satan. The spider needed to eat his prey in order to survive. The Fly had no defense to help him fight against the Spider and his web, so he was eaten by the Spider. The Wasp had a stinger that could protect him from Spider, so the Spider instead went after weaker insects. When the Fly is getting attacked by the Spider, it symbolizes that the Devil takes advantages of us when we are morally weak or when we don't believe at