can u tell me the meaning?

Question

"consider the fearful danger u are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless spit, full of the fire of wrath, that u are held over in the hand of the god, whose wrath is provoked and incensedd as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell"

this is a quote from SInner in the hands of an angry god, can you explain to me what does the author wanna to say about? and the usage of illustrate so!

Thanks so much!

Answer 1

It sounds very malevolent, doesn't it?I read this in high school, and that's when I turned away from christianity. How could a loving God treat us like loathsome bugs? Why is the essence of fundamentalist Christianity a kind of twisted self--hatred. How can any sin of any person, warrant eternal damnation for a temporary act?

Crazy. That's religion for you. It sounds like what would spout if Edgar Allen Poe went religious.