So, is there free will or is everything predestined? According to both John Milton and Satan (in this play), both are true. In Book III of Paradise Lost, Milton claims

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Unlike what her confidence and professionalism would like you to think, Cunningham is completely wrong.  Cunningham’s argument is that forgiveness is solely in God’s hands; it is up to Him

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Judas is not in Hell because he did something which “didn’t meet God’s conditions.” Judas is only still in Hell because he hasn’t forgiven himself yet — his Hell is

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IF God has an Ineffable Plan, IF everything which has happened, is happening, and will happen is destined to happen, IF there is no other possible outcome of anyone’s actions

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When Jesus is crucified, which is contrary to what Judas and everyone else thought was going to happen, Judas feels awful (to put it lightly). This is where the action

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Jesus says many things that many people don’t like because it isn’t the way they had been taught. One major inciting event, which our play calls the Disturbance at the

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Adam and Eve sinned, generously providing the rest of humanity with Original Sin and also the concept of sinning. Humans really like to sin, and continue to do so all

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IN THE BEGINNING, God creates the Heavens and the Earth. God then creates angels. Lucifer, one of these angels, wants dominion over the Earth, but God creates humans and gives

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Guirgis’s conception of the Christian God and His justice is one of the more distinct and unique interpretations that I have ever read. In order to fully understand Guirgis’s cosmology,

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As a preface: to compile the cosmology for this show, I used information I found in my research specifically for this show, along with textual analysis of John Milton’s Paradise

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