Is Dante's inferno or the Devine comedy an accurate depiction of Hell?

Question

just curious to know

Answer 1

Dante's Divine Comedy was ultimately about charitable love represented by Virgil, Cato, and Beatrice. Beatrice (which is a name she chose when she entered into a convent in Revenna, Italy. originally hher name was Antonia) represented the truth of God.

Inferno is actually the first book in The Divine Comedy. The reason it is a "Comedy" is because he is guided through hello, purgatory, and heaven, but he is not dead!!!

This "Comedy" forced Dante into Exile. He was a Politician by trade, writting was only a past time for him.

Answer 2

Dante's Inferno (it extremely is totally the first volume of the Divine Comedy) is a literary depiction which has change right into a fave idea of the Christian Hell. The Hebrew Sheol and Greek Realm of Haides (named after the ruler thereof) were no longer in and of themselves places of punishment in spite of the reality that the Greeks did have an component to punishment talked about as Tartarus for the depraved that changed into component to Haides' realm contained in the Underworld. The call "Hell" changed into maximum in all probability derived from the call of the Norse Goddess of the lifeless, Hel. So the Inferno is a uniquely Christian view of the afterlife and a literary masterpiece, yet now unlikely to be a definative look on the Christian afterlife.....

Answer 3

Dante's Inferno (which is actually the first volume of the Divine Comedy) is a literary depiction which has become a popular conception of the Christian Hell.

The Hebrew Sheol and Greek Realm of Haides (named after the ruler thereof) were not in and of themselves places of punishment although the Greeks did have a place of punishment called Tartarus for the wicked that was PART of Haides' realm in the Underworld.

The name "Hell" was most likely derived from the name of the Norse Goddess of the Dead, Hel.

So the Inferno is a uniquely Christian view of the afterlife and a literary masterpiece, but not likely to be a definative look at the Christian afterlife.....

Answer 4

Dante's Inferno was a part of the Divine Tradgedy wasn't it?

Anyway, it was the first known incident of Hell being represented as a place of eternal suffering. The deepest level of Hell was frozen cold, with Satan being suck forever in a block of ice covering the lower half of his body. Satan was also a giant, moronic, slobbering beast.

This play has pretty much set the standard for what people expect should they go to Hell, however they also expect Satan to be running around and there to fire everywhere.

So it did contribute the pain portion, but followers of Christianity decided to spruce up the inferno part of it.

Answer 5

i don't beleive so, when jesus told the parable of the beggar and the rich man; the rich man was is great agony and he wanted a drop of water to cool his tongue. I do like one part in Faust... the demons are asked why they are out of hell but they answer that after being in the presence of God and then being cast away that everywhere is hell because it is the absence of Gods presence. one way or the other it is not a fun or even barable place utter constant torment forever just aint cool

Answer 6

No. The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the grave,” “the world of the dead,” and so forth. Other Bibles simply transliterate the original-language words that are sometimes rendered “hell”; that is, they express them with the letters of our alphabet but leave the words untranslated. What are those words? The Hebrew she’ohl′ and its Greek equivalent hai′des, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the common grave of dead mankind.

Answer 7

I have to say that its pretty damn close...Dante and I absailed from heaven to hell last week and met Virgil halfway at a Starbucks for coffee (not THAT kind of coffee either)...The photos are up on my myspace if you want visual proof, just in case you think im making this up...

Answer 8

Our Biblical accounts of hell range from merely meaning 'the grave' (Hebrew word 'sheol') to the proverbial 'lake of fire' found in Jesus' parables and in Revelation.

Honestly, hell--as is heaven--is beyond human comprehension. The allegorical descriptions we have of both are symbolic representations of what would, at the time of the New Testament writings, be eternal bliss & prosperity, and of eternal torment. They should not be taken literally, I would wager.

Answer 9

I don't know. I think there may be different levels of hell. Just as I think there is different levels of heaven. I think the separation from God is hell too. I have not made a final conclusion about it all as yet. All I know is this - I am not going to hell. Wherever or whatever it is.

Answer 10

Probably not.

No one really knows what hell is like. It has been described by people who have not been there as everything from flames to a frozen lake (Dante).

Hell is the state of complete and final self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed, reserved for those who refuse by their own free choice to believe and be converted from sin, even to the end of their lives

I like to think of it this way. The only way a person will go to hell is if they want to.

God in His (or Her) unlimited love has given us free will to choose. Our most important choice is to freely decide to accept or reject God's constant offer of spending eternity with Him in heaven. God will respect the choice to reject Him.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 1033-1037: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art12.htm#1033

With love in Christ.