Just Like Heaven

Instead of a fiery portrayal as in the rest of the circles, the deepest stratum of hell is icy and frozen. In the Ninth Circle of Hell, the sinners are either murderers or traitors, and their punishment reflects their depravity. In Round 3 of the this Circle, the murderers/traitors of guests are encased in ice, all except for half their faces above the ice and their tears creating a frosty layer covering their eyes. These sinners are part of the frozen lake, Cocytus, because their act of…

As Christians believe in the afterlife, it is of the concept of heaven and hell, which in Hinduism is much different. When someone dies, you have the extreme of two option in Christianity. If you die without repenting of sin and following what the Bible says. In Christianity, hell is different as you must be an extreme sinner in the person’s former life and get torture and chastisement from demons. In the Hinduisms’ view of hell, you get the freedom after chastisement and take part in…

where you come across judgement to see whether you get sent to Heaven or Hell. Nobody can confirm what happens in Afterlife, the only people who know are the ones who have died and they do not have a way to tell us. There have been many different cases of when people have allegedly experienced ‘the other side’ and making it out alive. Some cases reported that they went to hell with Jesus so that he could show them what the suffering is like. Others have reported that they remember things…

Sisyphus is condemned to spend eternity in the underworld pushing a rock to the top of a mountain where it will roll back down so he must do it again. Camus states the reason that people see Sisyphus’ tale as tragic is because Sisyphus when he descends the hill, he is aware that he will do this task for eternity with no progress. Yet, the only reason that people respond with horror to Sisyphus’ trials is because they believe in hope. Camus argues that only if Sisyphus continues to hope is his…

all of this, here is some debate about C.S. Lewis’s view of Narnia. James Russell claims that Narnia is Lewis’s version of an idyllic Christian nation (62). On the other hand, Michael Nelson claims that it is more than just a wishful thought and that it is Lewis’s version of heaven (236). C.S. Lewis masterfully tells a fictional children’s story while weaving in elements of his faith. Aslan’s divinity, sacrifice, and resurrection are clear similarities between him and Jesus Christ. Likewise,…

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” by Dante Alighieri. This shows a little into Dante’s thinking as he ranked moral failures through his structure of hell. In Dante’s Inferno there are nine different circle or levels of hell. In these circle there are different punishments for the different sins people commit throughout their life. The worst the sin is that you commit, the lower in hell you go and the worst your punishment…

non-Christian adults to infants who wasn’t baptized" (Cantos IV). This is the place where heaven and hell has denied them of the entry. They reside in this hell, but not actually a part of it. In this state of limbo is a distinguished group of four classical poets. These circle of poets welcome back Virgil and honor Dante as their own. Bible scholars today argue Dante expression of Christ descending and ascending to heaven from this limbo state. The sufferings in the limbo state…

What makes Hell such a dreaded, terrifying place? In part of the text Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathon Edwards makes the observation that anyone who has not been a born again Puritan Christian will burn for all eternity in the pit known as Hell. To some, it is a dreaded, feared place, but to others it is fictional and incites no fear. In 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut, John Edwards delivered a horrifyingly powerful sermon to the Puritan congregation about the dangers, and reality of…

miasma could linger on the clothes and bedding of the infected as well (Slack, 437). However, there was debate about the origin of the miasma. Some said that God sent the miasma directly to Earth, others said that the miasma was due to certain alignments of the stars. German physician Konrad von Megenberg blamed the miasma on earthquakes caused by God. He believed that the earth held poisonous gases inside, and when God sent an earthquake, the poisonous air could escape through the cracks in the…

Hades was a very “greedy god, whose sole purpose was to increase the number of souls in his kingdom”(Mythology, 2017). Life for a soul in the underworld wasn't the greatest, “it was rather like being in a miserable dream, full of shadows, ill-lit and desolate, barren of hope”(Mythology, 2017). This place is not pleasurable or satisfying to any soal who spent their after life…