Analysis Of Adam's Paradise

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When Adam believed he lost everything, he blamed Eve and himself for what had happened –but he never blamed God. That is the true test of faith and what God had hoped to achieve with mankind in Paradise. Paradise would be made again, more marvelous still, because man would have earned everything he had himself, having been given nothing to assure him but everything to destroy him. In the visions from Rafael, Adam is shown the murder of Abel by his brother Cain, war and the loss of faith, the great Flood that destroys the world, the enslavement in Egypt, and more atrocities than he has the will to stand. He tries to reason that death would be better than this world of suffering. But he cannot go through with it –he made a covenant with God to have children and to go on living his life.
Adam and Eve would bring forth Abraham; Noah; Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus; Jesus; and Moses. With all that man would go through, Adam deemed it worth it all the hardship if just one person out of thousands of disbelievers, still held faith in God.
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At this last sight, assured that man shall live
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Man doesn’t determine whether something made by God can be said to be “worthy.” Milton uses the angels as conduits to relay just how expansive and unknowable God and the universe is: “[…] though to recount with almighty works/ What words or tongue of seraph can suffice,/ Or heart of man suffice to comprehend?” (VII, lines 111-114). Paradise Lost isn’t the true account of what Paradise looked like, least of all from God’s perspective, as He would be the only one to truly understand its complexities. The rendition of Paradise as described in Paradise Lost is only the work of Milton’s extensive vocabulary. And the word commonly used to describe anything within its bounds is

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