While reading Paradise Lost, I was enthralled with Book Nine. So much so that I wished that I could write a blog post about it. I loved how Adam was so in love with Eve that he would eat the fruit just so she would not have to die alone. He also did not want to live without Eve. But, I am not supposed to write a blog post about Book Nine. So, I am going to write about some things that were interesting to me in Book Ten.
I noticed in Book Ten the difference between Satan and his demons’ choices and Adam and Eve’s choice. They both made the same initial decision and regretted it. But their responses to the regret were different. Satan and his demons chose death over humbling themselves and repenting before God. But Adam and Eve eventually chose to humble themselves and ask for forgiveness. Adam would have rather died than live with his sins. He pleaded with God to “reduce me back to dust”(John Milton Book Ten). He also grieved that he cursed his heirs with sin. Later Adam and Eve discussed whether they should live and have no offspring, kill themselves, or live out their lives as God had told them.
Rather than think about this book as a political allegory, I kept relating it to our present lives. We have always lived with sin. We were born separated from God. It is only when we are saved that we are not separated from God anymore. We are so used to our sin in our lives that we are blind to how drastic they are. But before sinning, Adam, Eve, and Satan lived in harmony with God. When they sinned, they knew how separated they were from God. They could feel the loss. Every time they sinned, they knew the gravity of their sins. We, however, often have a hard time pinpointing our sins.
P.s. I commented on Devin’s and Drew’s posts
I noticed in Book Ten the difference between Satan and his demons’ choices and Adam and Eve’s choice. They both made the same initial decision and regretted it. But their responses to the regret were different. Satan and his demons chose death over humbling themselves and repenting before God. But Adam and Eve eventually chose to humble themselves and ask for forgiveness. Adam would have rather died than live with his sins. He pleaded with God to “reduce me back to dust”(John Milton Book Ten). He also grieved that he cursed his heirs with sin. Later Adam and Eve discussed whether they should live and have no offspring, kill themselves, or live out their lives as God had told them.
Rather than think about this book as a political allegory, I kept relating it to our present lives. We have always lived with sin. We were born separated from God. It is only when we are saved that we are not separated from God anymore. We are so used to our sin in our lives that we are blind to how drastic they are. But before sinning, Adam, Eve, and Satan lived in harmony with God. When they sinned, they knew how separated they were from God. They could feel the loss. Every time they sinned, they knew the gravity of their sins. We, however, often have a hard time pinpointing our sins.
P.s. I commented on Devin’s and Drew’s posts
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