Stairway to Heaven

Dante’s purpose of his journey was to get through heaven so he could get to heaven, which means he has to enter the very worst part of hell. Virgil says to Dante, “Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.” The last Circle in hell represents the worst of crimes, betrayal. An American writer and…

bible says in Ecclesiastes 12:7, NIV (as quoted by Bibleinfo.com). Many believe that when a person dies, they will go directly to Heaven, or to Hell, but some arguments state the Bible says that you will not go to Heaven or to Hell until Judgement Day. On Judgement Day God will come down to collect his creations and judge them, telling them where to go; either to Heaven or to Hell. This judgement also occurs in Egyptian Mythology but in a dissimilar…

An Analysis of the Importance of the Moral and Metaphorical Punishment of Classical hell in Contrast to the Annihilationist Hell in Biblical Studies This biblical study will analyze the importance of the moral and metaphorical punishment of classical hell in contrast to the Annihilationist Hell in the Christian tradition. The Classical version of Hell is defined in the unending punishment and torment of individual that suffer for an eternity for their sins. In contrast to this view, the…

natural process in life, but with theological judgement death is both evil and unnatural. (Davies, pg 7). In Christian theology, when one dies, they will be judged and sent to either heaven or hell. If one sinned, and never repented, they will most certainly be sent to hell, but if they repent they will be sent to heaven…

into doing the right thing. Hell serves as a moral propaedeutic for those who believe in it, and are afraid to wrong themselves as well as God. Those that believe in reincarnation would not fear Hell in the same way as those who believe in God and Heaven and Hell as the afterlife, but they would fear living a life of bad deeds, pain and sin over and over again because it would be like living in their own personal hell. Atheists would not fear Hell, any type of hell, because they don’t believe in…

Throughout Dante 's Inferno, the reader views one man 's opinions of sin and depictions of its punishment. Dante the poet keeps his views on different types of sin obvious, just as Dante the character expresses his views on the sinners and their punishments. Ultimately, Dante the character 's views differ from the poet 's views. Dante the poet comes up with the punishment, while Dante the character usually feels pity for those punishments. In Hell, the punishments of the souls are never ideal,…

to gain all of the glory of a good person, so he will face the same torturement he perpetrated to those angels, for every life he took, which was over 10, he will be above that pit for 1,000 years, then god will decide his soul’s worthiness, either heaven or forever walking the surface of Earth alone, see you collect the souls of people who have hurt others whether physically or mentally. “Why me though, well heaven’s waiting for you, but first you have to collect a minimum of 1,000 souls, For…

In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne showcases the Puritan community and their way of life: living by the Bible. Of course, some Puritans do not follow the teachings of the Bible, and thus they are referred to as sinners. These sinners are punished not only by the Puritans, but also by nature. However, Hawthorne shows that nature punishes leniently while the Puritans punish harshly. Hawthorne 's word choice of the sunshine in the forest shows nature 's lenient punishments. When Pearl and…

Intro-Dante Alighieri's narrative poem The Divine Comedy played an effective role in initiating the protestant reformation and revealing to the common person the importance of living a righteous life. In the Divine Comedy's Inferno, Dante and Virgil Journey through the nine fictional levels of Hell. Dante represents the human soul, and Virgil represents human reason. Throughout the journey they discover the punishments the sinners of Hell face eternally, based on their crimes. Each crime has its…

an Italian poet from Florence, who wrote his most famous poem, the Divine Comedy, in exile. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy for his idealized love, Beatrice, who appears in the trilogy as a goal for Dante. He traverses Hell, Purgatory, and even into Heaven to find and be with Beatrice. In the first part of his poem, titled Inferno, Dante, led by the Roman poet Virgil, encounters those who were unworthy of being Christians: “the unbaptized, the pagans, the lustful and the avaricious, heretics,…