Is The Trinity, Really The Christ?

Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost is a complex character meant to be the evil figure in the epic poem. Whenever possible Satan attempts to undermine God and the Son of God who is the true hero of the story. Throughout the story Milton tells the readers that Satan is an evil character, he is meant not to have any redeeming qualities, and to be shown completely as an unsympathetic figure. Satan’s greatest sins are pride and vanity in thinking he can overthrow God, and in the early part of the poem he is portrayed as selfish while in Heaven where all of God’s angels are loved and happy. Satan’s journey starts out as a fallen angel with great stature, has the ability to reason and argue, but by Book X the anguish and pain he goes through is

In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the parallelism between Satan and Eve’s fall is strong in that they were once both the highest before pure perfection. Lucifer is associated with evil, which stems from his free will leading to his rebellion against God and, ultimately, his great fall. He is known as the one who introduces sin to Adam and Eve – the first humans to ever exist. His plan to go against God is the beginning of a whole new world to the universe and a whole new significance of himself as the one known for human error and evil. Eve, “the mother of human race,” is Satan’s target to pull her down to his world of sin because she also wishes to become independent of Adam making her susceptible to anything that can separate her from

I will like to crave your indulgence to the fact that "Nicene concept of Trinity" is never stated in the Bible, and it is that early Christians as well as the scriptures clearly points out the fact that Jesus was fully divine and pre-existent. For the fact that, none of the early Christian theologians fully asserted the doctrine of the Trinity, not even a speculation about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. According to the father of the paganism description of Trinity "God can in no way be described." (Schindler 148).

Throughout this semester I have learned many of the different christian doctrines. Many of them were challenged and also accepted in my weekend trip throughout Saint Louis. I think one of the most important topics that was discussed during my weekend was the consideration of the Trinity. In the Christian thought the word “trinity” is a term used to talk about the Christian doctrine that God exists as a unity of three distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Three of the staple thoughts include; God is three person; each person is divine; there is only one God. In their relations to one another, they are stated to be on in all else, co-equal, co-eternal and consubstantial. With these three thoughts about the Trinity you also must remember that Christianity is a monotheistic religion.

In the first book of Paradise Lost, created by Milton, it can most accurately be perceived as Milton attempting to give the reader a different perspective on Satan, the greatest lost angel. In the first book of Paradise Lost, Milton writes about how Satan was the closest angel to God. Milton’s attempt at making Satan a sympathetic character evolved after his original audience had seen it, because in modern times it is much easier to sympathize with Satan than it was many years ago. The perspective of Satan has changed a lot. In modern times, we view Milton’s retelling of Satan’s story as a story of struggling against great odds, Satan’s being spoon fed powers, and Satan and the Fallen Angels optimism for Hell.

The Trinity represents perfect unison, cohesion, and beauty; Dante contrasts this with a depraved, chaotic, and disgusting image of the same concept. Again, here is the idea that Satan exists only in opposition of God Himself. Satan is not powerful enough to exist in his own being, he must exist only in contradiction to God. Paolucci states, “The gigantic three-headed monster who once thought himself equal of God has become the very antithesis of God- a grotesque caricature of the Holy Trinity” (Paolucci, 142). Dante allows Satan to reflect the Trinity in a way that actually displays him as the antithesis of this foundational belief.

The debate concerning the Trinity has been a constant debate throughout history. This debate has continued on through modern day. As we study the different opinions and beliefs on God the Father and His Son, we can see a pattern were the Trinity is not fully understood by many. In this paper, I will discuss The Arian Controversy. I will describe what Arius believed concerning God and His Son. Then I will share my thoughts and facts that will show what Arius taught was not correct.

Milton’s Paradise Lost is all about God, Satan, demons, angels, and humans; Adam and Eve. The poem starts with Satan who is boiling in a lava lake in hell. He was banished from heaven for conspiring against God. Satan and one-third of other cherubs in heaven were pushed into hell for trying to overthrow God. Therefore the fallen angels plan to return to heaven and destroy Adam and Eve; the general

The debate, “Is Jesus Christ God?” between Dr. James White and Sheikh and Jalal Abualrub represents one of the numerous discussions that question the deity of Jesus Christ, particularly among the Muslims and Christians. Both debaters give differing perspectives to justify their claims (Dr. Oakley). Dr. James White employs numerous quotes from the Bible to prove that Jesus Christ truly is the Lord, God. On the other hand, Sheikh Jalal Abualrub also employs some Bible quotes, scholarly materials and the encyclopedia to dispute that Jesus Christ is God. Based on the two videos, I think Dr. James White won the debate. In this light, I will provide specific reasons to justify my claim.

Paradise Lost is an epic poem which depicts a classic tale of good against evil and is very similar to beginning of the Bible. The story is set on a large scale as Satan tries to overthrow God and Heaven which leads to Adam and Eve –the original humans – being exiled from Paradise and the Garden of Eden. Paradise Lost begins by focusing on Satan, an angel who lost a battle against God. In Hell he creates Pandemonium and tries to create a plan to overthrow the tyrannical God and Heaven, even though he was created as an angel. Satan eventually decides to leave his dominion of Hell and travel through Chaos until he reaches Heaven and by changing

Paradise Lost is an epic poem written by John Milton other uses this epic poem to depict the integral scenes, or rather, experiences that lead up to the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden. In the Bible, as well as all prominent, and popular religious works; there is a clear distinction as to who the reader should be "cheering" for throughout their readings. However, John Milton's Paradise Lost has turned this concept on its head. Rather than placing the focus onto Adam, Eve, or even God himself - Milton instead chooses to place the main focus on to Satan. The Fallen Angels, and Satan are meant to be are antagonists within this epic poem. But, do they start out this way?

Satan is indeed “Hurled headlong flaming from th’ethereal sky” (Book I, line 45) and into Hell where he will live in fire. But as a leader, and a true protagonist, Satan chooses to accept his situation and rise as a hero for the pack of fallen angels he has led from Heaven. Even if God is his enemy, at least he is not serving anyone. He possesses his own heaven now, though not joyful and happy as the heaven he was just expelled from, “Farewell happy fields/Where joy for ever dwells: hail horrors, hail/Infernal world, …/ Receive thy new possessor” (Book I, lines 249-253). Satan makes Hell his Heaven with his mind, as he says, “The mind is its own place, and in itself/Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n” (Book I, lines 254-255). Satan acknowledges that he has made a Hell of his previous Heaven, but he also uses that reasoning to make Hell into his own Heaven. His anti-heroic qualities are apparent, though, when he tells his followers in Book I, “To do aught good never will be our task/ But ever to do ill our soul delight” (lines 159-160). It cannot be forgotten that Satan is evil by his creation and through his free will. God created Satan with all of his imperfections but makes it clear that he had a choice by

An allegory can be interpreted at two different levels: literally and interpretively. The literal meaning is most apparent and usually easy to understand while the interpretive meaning can be complex and require extensive insight to comprehend. At first glance, the literal interpretation of Sin and Death jumps out at the reader and seems overly appalling. In summary, Satan begets Sin then has sexual relations with her, thus Death is born who later has sexual

Satan was a fool to be making substantial amounts of mistakes in the past and to have betrayed numerous important people of -who they said did not deserve this- . After everything Satan had done there was a realization of how mostly everything that Satan had chose to participate in had factors of all the deadly sins: Wrath, Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Pride, Anger, and Sloth. The first time Satan had betrayed someone was with God, the all knowing God. God had had an opinion (or view) that Satan did not one bit agree with. So to that end he went against his saying and God did not particularly like that very much and consequently sent Satan to the underworld or what we call now “Hell”. Later on

Satan has a relationship with his “evil” followers much like a king to his noble subjects (or God to his followers). This is especially evident in lines 436-459, when Satan appears like a commoner until he ascends his throne and is suddenly clad in glory. The hundreds of thousands of demons are all condensed around the capital of Hell, waiting with bated breath for “their great adventurer from the search / of foreign worlds,” “whom they wished beheld, /