look into those a bit more. I. Hell A. “We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him” (CCC 1033). As we spoke about before‚ God has given us free will in order that we might choose to love. If we do not choose to love Him‚ we sin. If we continually choose to abuse our free will and live in a state of
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was the original sinner‚ banished to live an eternity in Hell by God himself as written in the Bible. During Satan’s fall it is understood that he is a manipulator; not only in the Bible but also in Paradise Lost. Although in Paradise Lost‚ Satan doesn’t just manipulate
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The angels of Heaven battled the rebel angels for several days‚ but the conflict was a draw. Then God the Father sends his Son to quell the rebellion. The Son casts Satan and the angels out of Heaven with only "half his strength. . .but check’d / His Thunder in mid Volley." Whereas Christ could have used all of His strength‚ he chooses "Not to destroy‚ but root them out of Heav’n." The hero will not utterly crush the weak like the rebel angels were‚ but will use only enough
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Dante showing him the different depths of hell. The Hoopoe is the main character in Attar’s The Conference of the Birds; he leads the rest of the bird on a voyage to find the Simorgh. Virgil and the Hoopoe
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Florentine i. Dante’s love even though both of them are married ii. Guide in Paradise b. Virgil the poet i. Guide through purgatory and inferno ii. Dante’s levels of hell are based off of Virgil from the 6th book of the Aeneid 4. The Divine Comedy a. Written in exile b. Took 13 years to make c. 3 sections i. Inferno (Hell) ii. Purgatorio ( Purgatory) iii. Paradiso (Paradise) d. Each section divided into cantos i. Total 100 cantos 1. 34 2. 33 3. 33 e. Written in 3 line stanzas called
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from himself and the chain of events that he has started. It shows he believes that he is in control not the Devils. Due to the fact that he doesn’t believe in ‘hell’ “For he confounds hell in Elysium‚ His ghost be with the old philosophers!” (Christopher Marlowe‚ Doctor Faustus‚ Act 1‚ Scene 3‚ line 61-62) He thinks he will not be in hell but with the Greek philosophers‚ in pagan heaven. This shows Faustus to be quite arrogant; he comes across as thinking he is better than the devil but also as quite
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like the fact that I don’t believe in hell‚ in order for me to really appreciate the Inferno. Probably the main thing that happened to me that shaped my views about Christianity in general was when my cousin tried to scare me into becoming a Christian when I was about 8 years old. He convinced me that unless I started being an obedient Christian who prayed and went to church and read the bible regulary‚ I was going to be sentenced to a existence of burning in hell for eternity by God. That’s a lot to
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to present the fine line between the virtuous and the wicked. Satan‚ who was called Lucifer‚ was a highly regarded angel in Heaven. This proves that he was formerly upstanding. The reader views Satan as a powerfully authoritative leader to all in his company. Milton illustrates Satan ’s behavior when saying‚ "His pride/ had cast him out from Heaven‚ with all his host. / Of rebel angels‚ by whose aspiring/ To set himself in glory above his peers" (Milton‚ 4). Arrogance was the chief cause why God banished
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agony during a sermon about Hell. Stephen explains how‚ “his flesh shrank together as if it felt the approach of the ravenous tongues of flames…”‚ and‚ “his brain was simmering and bubbling within the cracking tenement of the skull” (148). Stephen’s agony during the sermon and seemingly literal hellish suffering is a result of the guilt he feels for his material sins and sins of the flesh he perpetrated in chapter two. Stephen becomes convinced that he is going to hell. While agonizing about the
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and gruesome tale of one man’s journey through hell. Taking place in 1300 Dante writes about a character named Dante. Throughout the book we are not sure if the character is strictly sketched out like Dante himself or just simply named Dante. Most scholars of Dante believe that he used the name Dante but suggest that no evidence has been given to support the character Dante being based on the poet Dante. The Inferno is about Dante’s travels through hell with the help of his guide‚ Virgil. Dante gets
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