I read this passage, in response to my previous post of the "unanswerable question: Heaven or Hell?", at least five times, making sure I was reading it correctly. I'm still a little confused. God grants his angels free will and it it with this power that they are able to sin and be banned to Hell. Is free will then taken away from them? Satan is still able to make his own decisions in Paradise Lost, so I do not think this is the case. And regarding modern day "demons", ie. thieves, murderers, criminals, don't they have the power to choose good or evil? The narrator is right in saying, "There was no getting out of it" (23) because as I have said before, choosing Heaven or Hell is a grey area. However, is he correct in stating that demons do not have free will? Or perhaps he is saying you couldn't possibly be a demon if you had free will. This is the same as saying you couldn't choose good and evil if you were a demon but in a different way. Any way I word it, it seems to have the same contradictory meaning. What do you guys think?
Kellie M.
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