Mandate of Heaven

an event similar to what happened after their children’s deaths happening to Annie, once again. Contrastively, Dante’s and Chris’s journeys are in opposite ways; Dante goes “up” through Inferno and to Paradiso, while Chris’s journey is “down” from “heaven” to “hell,” signifying a difference between the source material and the…

What is greed? The most common distinction pertains to a strong and selfish desire for something, such as wealth or power. The question is, what kind of person would intentionally succumb to such a malicious concept? The notion itself appears in countless works of literature, from fiction and non-fiction alike, and stands as an extremely prominent theme that has been featured in countless collected works. However, regardless of its commonality, greed is still a sinful conception that many men…

ambassadors for Christ, it is our assignment to correct this very tragic error in their thinking. There is life after death, and there is death after death called the second death. Case and Powell, both, expound on the seriousness of Eschatology. Heaven and hell are literal places. They are real and a choice has to be made as to which place you prefer; the smoking section (hell) or the…

The Puritans were a group of very religious people. The term Puritan were applied to two groups of people who believed they should separate themselves from the corrupt Church of England. They also believed that God has selected a certain few for salvation, but unlike other christians they thought faith was just not enough. Jonathan Edwards and Anne Bradstreet about some of the puritans ways and beliefs. Bradstreet wrote a poem named “Upon The Burning of Our House.” Edwards wrote a sermon…

Canto 18 Dante and Virgil are outside the eighth Circle of Hell, known as Malebolge. The circle has a wall along the outside, and has a circular pit in the center. The ridges create ten separate pits. This is where the people receive their punishment for fraud. This is where Virgil and Dante see souls from one side to another. The demons with great whips cause pain to the souls when they come to the demon’s reach, which then force the souls to the other ridge. There is an Italian that Dante…

Canto XXVI begins with Dante sarcastically praising his native city Florence for having so many of its citizens populating Hell: with so many thieves, Florence has earned such a widespread fame not only on Earth but also in Hell! The poet Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory, now leads him along the ridges to the Eighth Pouch, where they see thousands of little flames flickering in a deep, dark valley, and reminding Dante of fireflies on a hillside. Virgil informs Dante that each…

believes in a all seeing ,all powerful good , know as Yahweh. Yahweh has a son know as Jesus, but Jesus has multiple names such as Son of Man, Beginning and the End, Lamb of God , etc. Their God sits on a throne in heaven with his son, Jesus, at the right hand of his father , in the kingdom of heaven with his angels’. While on the other hand Scientology doesn’t have a set God . Christianity believes when…

Dante creates a certain type of connection between a soul’s sin on Earth and, the punishment he or she shall receive in Hell. This idea provides many of Inferno’s moments of the imagery between good and evil, the symbolic power of each circle and what it represents, not only to Dante but the reader; as well as shedding a light on one of Dante’s major themes expressed throughout the book: the perfection of God’s justice. “The inscription over the gates of Hell in Canto III explicitly states that…

Every religion has their view of where people go after they die and the Jewish religion has their own view that is different than other religions. Someone might relate the Holocaust to Hell on earth but there is another type of Hell were souls who are to be punished must go. Every soul must go somewhere, sadly there are some wicked people who deserve to be punished for cruel acts they commit when they are alive. Judaism do not seem to view the afterlife of there being a Hell but more like a…

The near death experience was first defined to be a spur of consciousness leading to an altered-reality experience on random individuals who reach the state of clinical death by a lack of oxygen to the brain that implies complete unconsciousness on those individuals (Khanna & Greyson, 2014, p. 1605). Near death experience recounts highlight similarities among those who experience them. Characteristics such as out of body experiences, diving into darkness to then transport into a light-filled…