In a puritan sermon, as in edwards's sermon, what is one of the central themes of the message in the rhetoric

Believing in the power of God's to save us from eternal destruction.

Puritan sermons often focused on the power of God to save humans from eternal destruction. The sermons emphasized the importance of believing in this saving power. The sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards, is a good example of this. This sermon argues that following doctrines is not the way to achieve salvation. The only way to reach it is to put oneself on the hands of God, and to believe in his power to grant us eternal salvation.

the answer is:

d. a story that frightened readers so much they would become suspicious of their surroundings

frankenstein is one of the terror novels wrote by the writers in a sort of bet, lord byron challenged them all to write a ghost story, and the story came to mary shelley in a dream, she wanted to conect with the fears of her society, fears of technology and changes, and she wanted readers to look around, freightened.

explanation:

mark brainliest and have a great day!

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.