Misconceptions In John Milton's Paradise Lost
Many are religiously inclines. There are those who believe that they have all of God's intentions figured, but can we justify God's actions as our regeneration? Many know that God can do many things. He has restarted humanity by drowning many, he chooses who is faithful, and God created us. We don't need people to justify his actions. But in light of art and creation, John Milton's poem Paradise Lost created a vision of what God does for our world. Although, there are misconceptions in understands God's actions. In fact, God's justification can be confused for our regeneration in ways we can't imagine. While He is all powerful, there are still tasks that even God won't perform. One of these has to with the interaction with humans. Many believe
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l. 105-107). We know this is God's doing as there are no other shapes that matches ours', and we stand tall on two feet instead of four. We stand above other creature just as God stands above us. By extension, God creating us is a way He has proven that He "works in us by his will"(Slick). This is also indication that he uses us to create a new beginning in a way that He won't have to interact with us. A way that he uses others to create his image is through Jesus was born of a virgin "mother, but his sire / The power of the Most High: He shall ascend" (Book XII. l. 368-369). Using Jesus, He brought us further away from perdition, but the fact still stands that he can't fully decide our lives. There was no way that God could have prevented "Th' infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, / Stirred up with envy and revenge"(Book I. l. 34-35). Adam and Eve's interactions with the serpent wasn't prevented by God. It happened, and we paid the price for. So in what way can we justify God's actions for allowing us to fall from grace? Many would argue that this was to allow us to build ourselves up; to prove ourselves. And yet, the serpent was still able to get into our minds. It was able to excite the senses into knowledge that …show more content…
The truth though is that God's justification is different. There can be many view points of Justification, but it can be used as "a legal term which changes the believing sinner’s standing before God, declaring him acquitted and accepted by God, with the guilt and penalty of his sins put away forever" (Strauss). While justification does happen by God contributing his opinion, we still have to accomplish it on our own since if we don't then we won't appeal to God's favor. The difference between justification and regeneration is that regeneration is something we accomplish ourselves. While many understand that regeneration is recreating yourself, there are some who are taught "that men are regenerated when they are baptized, a belief commonly referred to as baptismal regeneration."(Webster). While them they may not be wrong it doesn't mean that everyone has the same view of baptism. To many "Baptizing in the profluent stream, the sign / Of washing them from guilt of sin."(Book XII. l. 442-443). While it is creating a clean slate for the person; baptizing doesn't recreate us. It has been noted that Jesus has said that we have to be born again for us to enter the kingdom of heaven, but it is fact that the Bible says that water baptism doesn't recreate us.(Webster). There is no instances that say that baptism will save someone, so "to insist that the new birth occurs as the result of water
l. 105-107). We know this is God's doing as there are no other shapes that matches ours', and we stand tall on two feet instead of four. We stand above other creature just as God stands above us. By extension, God creating us is a way He has proven that He "works in us by his will"(Slick). This is also indication that he uses us to create a new beginning in a way that He won't have to interact with us. A way that he uses others to create his image is through Jesus was born of a virgin "mother, but his sire / The power of the Most High: He shall ascend" (Book XII. l. 368-369). Using Jesus, He brought us further away from perdition, but the fact still stands that he can't fully decide our lives. There was no way that God could have prevented "Th' infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, / Stirred up with envy and revenge"(Book I. l. 34-35). Adam and Eve's interactions with the serpent wasn't prevented by God. It happened, and we paid the price for. So in what way can we justify God's actions for allowing us to fall from grace? Many would argue that this was to allow us to build ourselves up; to prove ourselves. And yet, the serpent was still able to get into our minds. It was able to excite the senses into knowledge that …show more content…
The truth though is that God's justification is different. There can be many view points of Justification, but it can be used as "a legal term which changes the believing sinner’s standing before God, declaring him acquitted and accepted by God, with the guilt and penalty of his sins put away forever" (Strauss). While justification does happen by God contributing his opinion, we still have to accomplish it on our own since if we don't then we won't appeal to God's favor. The difference between justification and regeneration is that regeneration is something we accomplish ourselves. While many understand that regeneration is recreating yourself, there are some who are taught "that men are regenerated when they are baptized, a belief commonly referred to as baptismal regeneration."(Webster). While them they may not be wrong it doesn't mean that everyone has the same view of baptism. To many "Baptizing in the profluent stream, the sign / Of washing them from guilt of sin."(Book XII. l. 442-443). While it is creating a clean slate for the person; baptizing doesn't recreate us. It has been noted that Jesus has said that we have to be born again for us to enter the kingdom of heaven, but it is fact that the Bible says that water baptism doesn't recreate us.(Webster). There is no instances that say that baptism will save someone, so "to insist that the new birth occurs as the result of water