ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In Book Three of “Paradise Lost, ” God the Father alludes to what theological principle in the following quotation: “I made him [Adam] just and right, / Sufficient to have stood though free to fall.”
A
Transubstantiation
B
Free will
C
Predestination
D
Sufficience
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Free will, as defined in the introduction, is the ability for an individual to make choices without interference or limitation. The God in Paradise Lost gives free will to the beings he creates. This is shown in Book III when God explains to Jesus that he has foreseen the fall of man. freely.

Detailed explanation-2: -God is also pure justice. He may see his plans for Man dashed by Satan’s trickery, but through divine justice, he will put everything to right and conquer Satan. From evil, God will produce goodness. God gave Man free will.

Detailed explanation-3: -God’s argument is essentially that Man has free will, that Man has the power to resist temptation, but that Man will give in to temptation because he does not use his powers. God’s foreknowledge that Man will fall in no way indicates predestination. God simply knows what Man will do; God does not cause Man to do it.

Detailed explanation-4: -God the Father is the creator of Heaven, Hell, the world, of everyone and everything there is, through the agency of His Son. Milton presents God as all-powerful and all-knowing, as an infinitely great being who cannot be overthrown by even the great army of angels Satan incites against him.

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