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The essay argues that Milton uses Satan to challenge the Calvinist doctrine of double predestination and to favor an Arminian model that renders the character an allegory for a fallen faith in God. It contextualizes the theological debate through Reformation disputes over predestination, grace, and divine decree.","Fallen Faith: Satan as Allegory in Milton’s Paradise Lost  \nFallen Faith: Satan as Allegory in Milton’s Paradise Lost  \nMargaret Johnson  \nAbstract  \nIn Paradise Lost, Satanfallsfrom the heavenly spheres, plunging through nightmarish limbo for nine days, and landing in the depths of Hell. Yet, prior to his descent into Hell, Satan belonged in Heaven, an archangel named Lucifer, a rational andperfect being created by God. John Milton depicts him as a powerful angelic being; as Archangel Raphael tells Adam, Lucifer is “of the first,/ If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, / In favor and preeminence”(I.659-660). Lucifer dwells in heavenly paradise, where angels dance and sing, drink “rubied Nectar” and eat “Angels’Food”(V.633), and live on verdant lands covered withflowers and “delicious Vines, the growth of Heav’n”(V.635). So why would this favored angel choose to deny his Creator?  \nIn Raphael’s elucidation to Adam about Satan’s fall, we learn that God favors his mighty Archangel Lucifer but not as much as His begotten Son, whom God anoints Messiah. God decrees that all heavenly beings must bow before His Son “and shall confess him Lord”(V.607-8). Milton renders Lucifer as envious, with a hardened heart, one who refuses to bow before the Son, and by extension, God, his Creator. By denying God, Lucifer seals his doom and is cast from Heaven,“Ordain’d without redemption, without end” (V.615). While it may appear that the Satan of Paradise Lost is destined to be banishedfrom Heaven—to be used by God as a tool, if you will, to effect the salvation of the world in Christ—another conception of Satan’s role exists. Milton uses the Satan character to argue against the prevailing Calvinist doctrine of his time—double predestination—and to espouse the less damning Arminian model of predestination, thus making Satan an allegory for a fallen faith in God.  \nMiddle Tennessee State University 147  \nScientia et Humanitas: A Journal of Student Research  \nThat with reiterated crimes he might  \nHeap on himself damnation, while he sought  \nEvil to others, and enrag’d might see  \nHow all his malice serv’d but to bringforth  \nInfinite goodness, grace and mercy shown  \nOn Man by him seduc’t, but on himself  \nTreble confusion, wrath and vengeance pour’d.  \n(Paradise Lost I.214-220)  \nIn Paradise Lost, Satan falls from the heavenly spheres, plunging through nightmarish  \nlimbo for nine days, and landing in the depths of Hell, where  \n[. . .] now the thought  \nBoth of lost happiness and lasting pain  \nTorments him; round he throws his baleful eyes  \nThat witness’d huge affliction and dismay  \nMixt with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. (I.54-58)  \nYet, prior to his descent into Hell, Satan belonged in Heaven, an archangel named Lucifer, a rational and perfect being created by God. John Milton depicts him as a powerful angelic being; as Archangel Raphael tells Adam, Lucifer is “of the first, / If not the first ArchAngel, great in Power, / In favor and preeminence”(I.659-660) . Lucifer dwells in heavenly paradise, where angels dance and sing, drink “rubied Nectar” and eat “Angels’Food”(V.633), and live on verdant lands covered with flowers and “delicious Vines, the growth of Heav’n”(V.635) . So why would this favored angel choose to deny his Creator and suffer in Hell for eternity?  \nSome readers of Paradise Lost believe Satan’s purpose, his destiny if you will, is to be banished from Heaven in order to be used by God as a tool to effect the salvation of the world in Christ, but another conception of Satan’s role exists. In Raphael’s elucidation to Adam about Satan’s fall, we learn that God favors his mighty Archangel Lucifer, but not as much as His begotten Son, whom God anoints Messiah. God decrees that all heavenly beings must bow before His Son “and shall confess him Lord”(V.607-8) . Milton renders Lucifer as envious, with a hardened heart, one who refuses to bow before the Son, and by extension, God, his Creator. 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