Many people who read Paradise Lost find the God that Milton presents in Book III somewhat defensive, as if he is trying to side-step blame for creating human beings capable of doing wrong. If he is perfect, why didn't he create perfect people (or perfect angels, for that matter)? Or if he did create Adam and Eve perfect, why didn't he make them so that they would see through Satan and resist his temptations? Milton's God claims to have created man "Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall." What does that mean? Do you think that God could have done a better job?

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