Instructions: select the correct answer.

why does edwards claim that nonbelievers are akin to spiders in "sinners in the hands of an angry god"?

". . and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a falling rock."

i. spiders are considered to be errors of god’s creation.
ii. spiders are powerless should a rock fall on them.
iii. spiders are considered the lowest form of life and thus expendable.

i

ii

iii

i and ii

i and iii

II. Spiders are powerless should a rock fall on them.

Explanation:

Edward here claims that Non-believers of God are analogous to spiders to affirm the power supreme authority i.e. The Almighty God. He argues that if one is engrossed in his/her own prudence and audacious enough to believe themselves to be above the world, then no one can defend them from bearing the consequences and sent to hell similar to the spider's inability to stop a rock. The author implies that the power of Almighty should never be overlooked at any cost. The other two options display the spider as errors and expendable which doesn't portray the idea of the author i.e. to establish the power of divine authority and hence, incorrect.

a) madame podtochina used witchcraft to make it disappear.

the answer is "began" because it is a action that can be done