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Paradise lost book 96/26/2023 God purposefully lets Satan escape Hell and sneak past Uriel into Eden, and basically orchestrates the whole situation so that humanity can be easily ruined by a single disobedient act. Milton did not believe in the Calvinistic idea of “predestination” (that God has already decided who is going to Hell and who to Heaven), but he often comes close to describing a Calvinistic God. Some critics have claimed that the God of the poem undercuts his own arguments, however. God specifically says that he gives his creatures the option to serve or disobey, as he wants obedience that is freely given, not forced. Milton’s God exists outside of time and so sees all times at once, and thus can see the future without actively affecting it. In Paradise Lost Milton argues that though God foresaw the Fall of Man, he still didn’t influence Adam and Eve’s free will.
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