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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 3 Podcast 42 Book II Paradise Lost Hell's Gate Poet's Corner
Description: Paradise Lost Hell’s Gate A poet, especially a genius such as John Milton, has a gift of language that can make the most abstract concepts concrete through figurative imagery. In our religious jargon we speak of Satan, of sin, of death, and of hell sometime with very abstract language. They are a kind of vague abstraction that takes on different meanings under different circumstances.For example, in the scriptures sin exists only as a violation of the laws of God. If there were no laws, there would be no sin. As Paul s...