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......
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