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    symbols and ideas regarding punishment. The Divine Comedy was written between 1308 and 1321 while Dante was exiled from Florence. This allegory takes Dante through the nine layers of hell with his guild Virgil‚ a Roman poet who died before the birth of Christ‚ so he wonders between Paradise (Heaven) and the Inferno (Hell)‚ in Purgatory. The epic poem has much symbolism towards the number three‚ such as the three locations‚ Paradise which represents the Power of the Lord‚ The Inferno‚ the love of the

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    Personal Hell

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    My Hell consists of a slide-like shape which has bends and plateaus where the sinners are placed upon. This slide has three major levels; the first houses the sinners who sought to harm others by taking advantage of them when they were in a trusting state; stealing and cheating. The second level is for those sinners that caused harm to those surrounding them by physical means. The third plateau is at the bottom of the slide and is meant for sinners that hid in the shadows and preyed upon others weaker

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    however‚ further details reveal that Mrs. Ryan is in fact exposing the misuse of religion. Mrs. Ryan is supposed teach children the goodness of God‚ yet her actions convey otherwise. After all‚ Mrs. Ryan talks about hell instead of heaven‚ offers to burn your finger representing hell‚ tells a bad confession story and does not teach children how position during first confession. Successfully Mrs. Ryan transits fear to her students‚ accurately she represents the corruption within the church. At

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    leopard. The spirit of the poet Virgil appears and offers to take him to the top of the mountain to Heaven when his love‚ Beatrice‚ is‚ but the way first leads through Hell. Virgil and Dante enter through the gates of Hell and see a crowd of people along the banks of the river. Virgil tells Dante these are the souls who neither sinned nor worshipped God‚ and are therefore rejected by both Heaven and Hell. Charon takes them across the river. The Second Circle is guarded by Minos and is the first of four

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    Eschatology

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    Short Essay on Eschatology Any conversation about condemnation to hell is unsettling. The Bible serves as our guide so that we know how to be saved from eternal punishment in hell. In the Bible‚ Jesus urges us to follow His example and share His message with others so that they may be saved. In regards to an unsaved person‚ there are differing thoughts about what happens to their soul after they die. People argue that God sentences the unsaved to eternal punishment‚ others believe in annihilationism

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    Dante’s Inferno Critique

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    Dante’s Inferno is a story about how two men and their travels through hell‚ the different levels of hell‚ who was in them‚ and what they did during their time on Earth. There were nine circles and some of them had different levels inside the circles for example the seventh circle of hell is divided between three smaller circles. Then they eventually emerge back out onto the earth but on the opposite side of the earth from where they had started. The book starts out with Dante wandering through

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    Dante’s philosophy and Pico’s philosophy. In Dante’s The Divine Comedy‚ each soul sought to achieve Heaven‚ and those in Heaven were in bliss no matter where they were in Heaven. Even the souls that were further away from God in Heaven did not want to be higher up because they completely accepted the role of God in deciding where they would end up. One soul that Dante talked to in this circle of Heaven said‚ "We thirst for this alone. If we desired to be higher up‚ then our desires would not be in accord

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    Renaissance. While Dante was away on a diplomatic trip‚ the Black Guelfs took over Florence and banished Dante from the city. During his life in exile‚ Dante wrote the epic poem The Divine Comedy and finished it shortly before his death. The nine circles of Hell were constructed by Dante‚ and as one went down the levels‚ the punishment increases. Dante places the Virtuous Pagans justly because the only suffering they should feel is the longing for God and earned the rights to live in a dignified environment

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    Virtue and Allah

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    Allah! Don’t put us to shame on the day we shall return to you. O Allah! Accept our Prayers and our Fasting‚ our Standing‚ Our bending and our Prostration. O Allah! Guide us against the hell fire O Allah! Make us an inmate of paradise O Allah! O Allah! O Allah! O Allah! The Everlasting‚ the Creator of Heaven and Earth’s‚ the most high‚ the most generous O Allah! Increase us in Knowledge and Understanding‚ make our Academics our friends‚ and make us graduate in flying colour O Allah! We beseech

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    after death‚ that goes to a heaven of the blessed or to a hell of the damned‚ where are those places?" Moreover‚ he goes into detail and explains his reasoning against the resurrection of the body. He states the mere thought of such ideas beggars reason‚ ignores facts‚ and enthrones blind faith‚ wild dreams‚ hopeless hopes‚ and cowardly fears as sovereign of the human mind‚ despite the fact the bible clearly states that Jesus has risen from the dead and ascended into heaven. Darrow moves on into the

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