Circles Of Hell In The Divine Comedy

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The Divine Comedy is a very interesting story, even though it is fiction one may wonder if hell is something similar of Dante how describes it to be. If one is a Christian one must not only believe that Heaven is a real things, but that Hell is also a real thing that people go to. However, a lot of Christians do not believe that Hell is a real place for them to go to until it is too late. Many people get caught up in the worldly things instead of focusing on the godly things on Earth, however the worldly things will catch up to one if they let it. The worldly things will catch up with them when their time on Earth is done and it is time for them to be judged, however by that time it will be too late. Unfortunately in The Divine Comedy we meet a lot of …show more content…

In the Divine Comedy Dante describes the nine different circles of hell in which sinners are punished in an appropriate way for their sins that they committed on earth. In the bible it does indeed tell us that in hell there will be different degrees of punishment however it does not tell us that there will be different “circles” of hell. This is just one example out of many from the Divine Comedy that portrays certain elements from the bible. The Divine Comedy not only brings us small examples from the bible, but it also brings us different people in the bible as well. In the first circle of hell which is also known as Limbo is considered pre-hell. Limbo is where all of the unbaptized and all of the good people who died before the coming of Christ are at. The people in Limbo can also be people who are not necessarily bad enough to be in hell, but not good enough to enter the gates of Heaven. The people who are in Limbo are waiting for the second coming of Christ because they will get a second judgement and may get liberated into Heaven. However, along these good people are people from the Hebrew Bible. Even though people in Limbo are waiting for their

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