I am the way into the city of woe.
I am the way to a forsaken people.
I am the way into eternal sorrow.
Sacred justice moved my architect.
I was raised here by divine omnipotence,
Primordial love and ultimate intellect.
Only those elements time cannot wear
Were made before me, and beyond time I stand.
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
This is what is inscribed on the gateposts of Hell. This inscription implies that God created Hell to punish the sinful with divine justice. The sinners are usually punished with a punishment that is the same nature as their sin(s) in life. For example, the gluttonous are forced to lay in stinking snow and freezing rain while Cerberus, the three-headed beast, slavers over them like they slavered over their food. It is interesting that it says that Hell was formed with "Primordial love" because most people these days do not think of Hell as love. However, it implies that God made Hell with love to show the sinners that their doings were wrong and that they should be punished. God's plan is to show the sinners kind of "tough love" because since God gave man free will, man can use that free will to do bad so God mush show them the error of their ways. God, however, is not angry at the transgressors, he only wants them to find divinity by taking their punishment in Hell. The damned are also eager to cross Acheron and receive their punishment because they know that they need to make up for their transgressions and they will find ultimate intellect about their wrongdoings in doing so. The main point of the inscription is to show that Hell is a place of misery and woe, but it was only made in the love of God to punish the sinners and show them the error of their ways.
You struggle some with this first post to create structure and to develop your response to a great enough degree. This reads like a blob of ideas - you need some paragraph structure with clear claims and evidence to support those claims. Though this is online writing - the expectation is the same as if you were doing a short essay on paper. Show good close reading by referring to specific diction and analyzing the language to a greater degree. You are about 50 words shy of the minimum. The look of your blog is creative - try and balance with some more in depth discussion of the text.
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