Dante's Inferno creates an imaginative comparison between a soul's sin on Earth and the punishment it receives in hell. The Christian themes in Dante's Inferno would be wisdom and knowledge of the horrors of Hell, compassion and forgiveness, and the perfection of God's justice. The comparison of wisdom and knowledge of the horrors of Hell in Dante's Inferno and in the Bible is very similar. In Dante's Inferno, Dante's new outlook on Hell allowed him to know that Hell is real and that you will be severely punished for your crimes. At the edge of Hell lies the Vestibule, where the uncommitted are punished and must chase a dirty, blank flag for eternity, while wasps and worms torment and bite them. Next, in the first circle of hell, Limbo, are the pure non-Christians, people who died without knowing Christ and the unbaptized pagans are punished by an eternal desire to see God now. This includes Virgil as well as many other famous historical writers of the time. Then, crossing the border towards the second circle, a monster, named Minos, condemns the souls to their respective punishments. The number of times Minos wraps his tail around himself is equal to the circle of Hell the soul is sent to. Inside the second circle, Lust, Dante watches as the souls of the Lusts swirl, clash brutally, and find themselves thrown into a terrible storm for eternity. In the third circle of hell, the gluttons must lie down in the mud and endure a rain of filth and excrement. And in the fourth circle, that's where Dante and Virgil meet the Accusers and the Wasters, who spend eternity charging each other with giant rolling boulders. While in the fifth circle of Hell, this is where the Cholerics fight each other viciously...... middle of paper ...... “You believe that God is One; you are doing well. Even the demons believe… and shudder! (James 1:27) compares to the way the angels take Dante through hell; this shows that God has power over everything. Not only is God powerful, but He also serves perfect justice. The perfection of God's righteousness is written on the gates of hell, "Abandon all hope, you who enter here." Judgment is based on our earthly lives, not what we do after we die. This means that there will be no second chance at salvation beyond this life. As long as a person is alive, they have a second, third, fourth, fifth, etc. chance to accept Christ and be saved. Hell exists to punish sin. Just as the adequacy of the specific punishments of Hell testify to the divine perfection that all sin violates. “When justice is done, it is joy to the righteous but terror to the wrongdoers” (Proverbs 21:15).