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... Dante's conception of purgatory as a lofty mountain ... God vouchsafed to souls in Heaven."
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Everyone has a different idea about what Heaven is like, but who knows the true state of Heaven? No one can really know, because no one on earth has ever seen Heaven; though, many scholars have come up with different takes on what the believe Heaven to be. In Dante’s Paradise, he explains his conception of Heaven by explaining the physical appearance of it, the separate levels within Paradise, and the actual souls residing there. However, Dante’s conception of Heaven contradicts what Baptist believes it to be like.
In Dante’s Paradise, Heaven appears to be a place of brilliant light. So brilliant and bright that when he first arrives in Paradise, he can hardly see due to the illumination all around him. He has trouble describing the exuberant light and can only say, “ I have been in His brightest shinning heaven and seen such things that no man, once returned from there, has wit or skill to tell about.”(Dante Canto 1 pg. 391 lines 4-6) On this account, Christians and Dante are in agreement- that if someone has God in their life, it makes the darkness fade and the light shine through. The Bible assures this gift in stating, “ O Lord, you are my lamp, The Lord turns my darkness into light”. (2 Samuel 22:29) Once Dante’s moved from Hell, through Purgatory, and finally reached Heaven, God showed him the light.
Dante separates Paradise into nine different levels: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Fixed Stars, Primum Mobile, and the Empyrean. “Just like the levels of Hell represented different levels of damnation”(Alvares pg. 1), Paradise has different levels according to what the souls did with their time on earth. Christians believe that God forgives us of our sins, “So, brothers, I am telling you that through Jesus your sins can be forgiven.” (Acts 13:38) Also, deeds done by man on earth don’t account for anything when judgment day comes. If man has been living his life through Christ, with the belief that...
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