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Milton's Theodicy In Paradise Lost And Paradise Regained

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Milton’s Theodicy
(Personal critique of John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, and the theodicy it contains.)

There are approximately four thousand two hundred different religions that inhibit this earth today. Among these is Christianity. Christianity itself has many different branches with many different beliefs outside God. All are based around this one central concept of an all-powerful, all-knowing God, but additional beliefs are added or subtracted to make each denomination different. John Milton does something similar by writing what he believes to be the true account of the fall of humankind. It is of his own accord and through the ‘divinity of God,’ that he was able to write the twelve book long epic. There is a lot of knowledge put into Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, by Milton and with that, many theodical theories to be accepted or refuted as true. A main point of Milton’s theodicy in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, is his concept of free will to fall. Personally, I found this concept to be very controversial since it is coming from an all-powerful, all-knowing God. God said himself, “He had of Me All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall…” …show more content…

With an all-powerful, all-knowing god, he could’ve stopped Satan from initiating the fall in Eve and then Adam in consequence. “I formd them free, and free they must remain…” (Book 3, Line 124) This is God’s defense to the reason he let his wonderful creation fall; they are made free, so they must remain. Whether that entitled letting what happens, happens. Personally, I just don’t think God did all he could to help Eve grow stronger in her faith. God revealed himself to Adam but never to Eve. He was just a speaking voice to her, never a concrete physical

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