In Book Three of "Paradise Lost," God the Father alludes to what theological principle in the following quotation: "I made him [Adam] just and right, / Sufficient to have stood though free to fall."
Correct answer: B. Free will
- A. Transubstantiation
- B. Free will
- C. Predestination
- D. Sufficience
Explanation
The phrase “free to fall” expresses the doctrine of free will: Adam was created upright but had the liberty to choose disobedience. Predestination would deny that meaningful freedom of choice.
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