Allegiance between creator and created, between king and subject, between man and woman. Adam and Eve owe God allegiance for their lives. In Genesis, we are led to believe that God wished for his creations to be faithful and obedient in accordance with his wishes. Milton, in personifying God and the first human beings, takes this concept one step further. In bringing God down to man through the vehicle of the epic poem, Milton attributes to God the capacity for reason.
Loyalty is important because it can be used, in the field of reason, to prove innocence.
God is a God of reason but his creations, Milton asserts, were wholly innocent. Milton is not only anthropomorphizing God, he invests his God character with his own personal religious ideology. A far cry from the Old Testament God of fire and wrath, Milton s God is orderly. Men do not have a knowledge of good and evil, as God s angels do. It is strongly implied that this knowledge is required to recognize power and the idea of a creator.