The basis of every punishment that God imposes is based on the nature of the sin. For every sin justice must be served because if there were no justice‚ those who sinned would go unpunished and would be raised into Heaven after death to be with God. If the sinners made it to Heaven instead of going to Hell‚ it would contradict the creation and sole purpose of Hell. The purpose of the Dante’s journey through hell is to witness the perfection of God’s justice‚ and also to cause a self-realization
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LIBERTY UNIVERSITY THE HELL DEBATE A RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED TO PROFESSOR MASHALL WICKS IN COMPLETION OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THEOLOGY 350 BY JOHNNY CARTER LYNCHBURG‚ VA JULY 6‚2012 Introduction When trying to have a conversation about hell Hendrikus Berkhof says concerning the dominant ecclesiastical idea of hell as eternal punishment that ”there has always been a reluctance to engage in a deeper probing of this frightening
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In John Milton’s Paradise Lost‚ he tells of Satan’s banishment from Heaven. He and his brigade have plotted war against God and are now doomed to billow in the fiery pits of hell. Satan is a complex character with many meaningful qualities. The relationship between Satan’s qualities and Hell’s atmosphere tell the reader more about why they seem to go hand in hand. Without Satan’s features and Hell’s tormenting aspects‚ the place would not be all it is.<br><br>Milton states that one will "dwell in
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the body forever‚ and once the physical body dies‚ the soul lives on. I do find Hick’s point of John Smith dying and then appearing in another country is unlikely. Once the body dies‚ I believe that the soul lives on and the soul goes to either heaven or hell‚ not another place on the earth. 4. After reading all of the assigned articles for this module‚ in your own words‚ how would you define the self? How can the same person exist at different times? Please provide reasons to support
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Intro: Everyman is a morality play that was written by an unknown author in the late fifteenth century. The play is about man’s reckoning with God upon our death. Thesis: The attitude toward life and death in Everyman is that in order to ascend into heaven upon our demise we must have done good works in our life. Paragraph one: God’s criticism of man. The play starts with God stating all the ways in which he feels mankind has failed him. “And now I see the people do clean* forsake me”. Paragraph
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situates honorable pre-Christian-era souls in Limbo‚ stating that those who “[…] did not worship God in fitting ways” (Cantos IV. 38.) or did not receive baptism‚ were eternally stuck‚ and consequently‚ constraining those of the Christian era into either Heaven or Hell. The authority of the church is evidently present in Dante’s telling. If a person doesn’t have faith in God as portrayed by the Church‚ he is deemed a sinner and his soul is compelled to go to Hell. Conversely‚ Virgil had no holy discriminations
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desert-like landscape which the men currently inhabit and refers to it as "the twilight kingdom." The statement has direct ties to the Catholic belief in the levels of afterlife‚ where heaven is bright and stellar‚ and hell is dark and internal. As twilight is halfway in between day and night‚ purgatory is halfway in between heaven and hell. In this system‚ the place in which a person remains in the afterlife is in direct accordance to their sins and virtues; various sins cascade deeper down
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In the name of Allah‚ the most beneficent the most merciful. The concept of Satan in Christianity and Islam are most times different although there are some similarities. The noble Qur’an has more detailed description about who Satan is than the Bible which lack a great deal of information about Satan’s history. In this write up‚ we shall be looking at Who is Satan from the Islamic and Christianity point of view‚ where they agree and where they are not in agreement. In Islam‚ Shaytan is also known
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on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.” His Great Divorce refers to the absolutely irreconcilable differences‚ as well as the insurmountable distance‚ between Heaven and Hell and between good and evil. He carries out this education by taking his readers on a journey from Hell (or purgatory‚ depending on the visitor) to Heaven. Throughout the journey‚ Lewis’s narrator interacts
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proportion to their sin and to pity their suffering is to demonstrate a lack of understanding of God’s perfect justice. It is interesting to find that Dante’s moral system prioritizes not human happiness or harmony on Earth but rather God’s will in Heaven. A fraudulent person is placed i the sixth ring of Hell while a murderer is placed in the fourth ring of Hell. Dante thus considers violence less evil than fraud: of these two sins‚ fraud constitutes the greater opposition to God’s will. God’s will
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