Augustine's Confessions and Dante Alighieri's Inferno are both stories about lost men on a journey to find salvation and God's grace in heaven. ... We learn that God is not tempting us so he can find out our character and find something hidden within us, but so that we will find out what is hidden within us and realize our own character. ... In Inferno, Dante goes through many battles while facing sin and temptation as he goes through the three divisions of Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradiso. The inferno is Dante's idea of what hell would be like and it represents all the ki...

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