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Essay / Paradise Lost - 2843
The seat of faith lies in the will of the individual and not in the inclination to one's own reasoning, for reasoning is the freedom to choose what one accepts as one's will . Considering that the will was created and that one cannot blame the potter or the clay, Milton writes this reasoning as "their own revolt", whereas the clay of humanity is sufficient and rightly flexible to be used as a vessel of obedience or disobedience (3.117). ). The difficulty of this acceptance of obedience or disobedience is inherent in the natural refusal to recognize that we are at the disposal of another being, even of God. One of the themes of Paradise Lost is humanity's disobedience to a Creator, a Creator who claims control over his creation. When a single living being that God created escapes the control of the Creator, it essentially constitutes an eradication of the Creator God. A Creator who would create a creature whose Creator would or could not control his creation is not a sovereign God. For who would not hold someone responsible for making something that cannot be controlled and consider it immoral to do so? To think that God created a universe in which he has somehow abdicated is to attribute immorality to the Creator. Since the core of Milton's epic poem is to "justify God's ways" toward his creation, these "arguments" are framed in Miltonic theological terms in his words (1. 26). Milton's terms and words in Paradise Lost connect God's vision to man and Milton's vision to the reader. Points of view considered in theological terms which have opened many wandering paths through the centuries to trouble imperfect men in explaining the perfect God. Justifying God's ways is a well-trodden path, but there is more to one path. Because if...... middle of paper ......o tensions. The Apostle Paul wrote by the same Spirit that Milton asserted that the potter had power over the clay and that through the riches of God's mercy he would show mercy to whomever he would show mercy. Theologians of history, Augustine, Wyclif, Luther, Zwingli, Calvin and others, all supported this doctrine of predestination and taught it vigorously. Predestination is forcefully written into Scripture and the challenge for Milton was to demonstrate that the Father is reasonable, but at the same time God is Almighty. So where do Milton's views lie in relation to a perfect God? Like others before “of Providence, of foreknowledge, of will and destiny, of fixed destiny, of free will, of absolute foreknowledge”, in the response of the apostle Paul “O man, who is you to respond against God? Shall the formed thing say to him that formed it, why have you made me thus? (2.559,560 - Romans 9:20 KJV.)?