God in the image of man by Brenna Stringfellow

In Paradise Lost, I saw a little bit of the Riddle of Epicurus because I feel that Milton has made God to be more king-like than God-like. I say this because one of the question I a have always wondered is if God sees the evil going on then why doesn’t he just stop it? Because if he is omnipotent then he would simply been able to stop what happened. Of course the answer to that one would be the free will he has given man, but the way Milton transposed it made it more cunning. I’m not questioning God’s power but I feel that Milton had kind of diminished it. 

Then Milton also made Gabriel and other angels soldier-like where they report everything back to God so He can know what is going on just like an army would a king. Which here again makes me think if God is omnipresent he would already know what is going on beforehand. I see Milton making God more human like and less powerful, yet Satan is able to get around the garden and seem to have more power than God. Also in the Bible God called out to Adam and asked him where he was at, which makes him omnipresent, but in Paradise Lost, He sent Raphael to go and speak with Adam instead rather that doing it Himself. 

I just find it so interesting that Milton would actually do this. It make me wonder what his motive was for it, to make the situation relate to man better, to make us believe He really isn’t as great as He seems, or what was going through his mind at the time to make him present God this way. I know that I have to keep this separate from the Bible because it honestly kind of makes me irritated the way Milton did it. I just really want to sit down and have a conversation with him and I just ask him questions about this book. 

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