Danté -- The Divine Comedy

I was reading Danté's Divine comedy for school, and I noticed something interesting...

What many people today probably don't know, it that most people's idea of hell comes from The Divine Comedy rather than the Bible. Kinda sad since there is so much clear doctinal error in Danté, but people will beleive what is popularly told, not necessarily what is true.

The section (or canto III as it is called in the book) goes over the region in hell where the people who didn't make a descision go. As in they neither chose God's team nor the Devil's team.

"They are mixed with that repulsive chior of angels
     neither faithful nor unfaithful to their God,
     who undecided stood but for themselves.
Heaven, to keep it's beauty cast them out,
     but even Hell itself should not receive them,
     to fear the damned might glory over them." (37-42)

Danté seems to believe that it is possible to be a neutral force in the universe -- neither for God nor against Him. Neither entirely good nor entirely evil. Danté must have either forgotten or simply ignored Matthew 12:30:

"He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters."

There is no middle ground with God. If one is not fully and wholeheartedly for the cause of Jesus Christ he is automatically set against Him. There is no limbotic, neutral middle ground. Sorry, it just doesn't work that way, as much as we'd like to believe so.


I'm sorry, Danté, but there are somethings that you believe (or at the very least, you wrote about) that don't line up with scripture. Your name is either in the book of life, or it is not. There is no arbitrary list that says, "These people never made up their mind." Not making a decision is a decision in and of itself, a decision of rejection. Rejection of Jesus Christ's provision.