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Dante's Reconciliation of a Loving God and a Horrific Hell Dante Alighieri, a great Italian poet, is most noted for a journey, which he wrote of in his Divine Comedy series. In these works, Alighieri sends a fictional Dante through Hell, Purga ....

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... does not guarantee salvation. It is a choice made by man that does insure salvation. So, as seen in The Inferno, hell still exists and the chances of going there are real. A reader might wonder how God can allow this kind of suffering and pain. Dante succeeds in justifying the coexistence of God, who is omnipotent, just, and loving with a hell that is treacherous, disgusting, and eternal. Dante alludes to the power of God as one of his recurring themes in The Inferno. Dante, the character, is a mere mortal. God placed him in the hands of Virgil, a great Roman poet who represents human reason within The Inferno. Although Dante has ...