Sinners face a journey of hundreds of miles before even reaching their place for eternal torment. The …show more content…
After being swallowed whole, within the snake's body all sinners are taken to a chamber, stripped and tied down as a hot metal iron bar is pressed into their foreheads, forever marking them with the sins they committed in their previous lives. They are then released as a part of the excrement of the serpent symbolizing their souls’ lack of worth and thrown into the arms of another monster, who promptly places them into a floating transparent bubble through which they are able to see the tortures of all those below them. Not only do they see, but they also feel the excruciating pain of all those they glance upon. The sinners begin to float to the right and left sides of a wall intended to separate those who sinned merely in thought and those who sinned in action. As they enter their designated areas, the sinners below start shooting arrows of ice, subsequently forcing the bubble to break and the sinners to fall into a bed of thumbtacks before being carried to a dark forest filled with dank caves and endless deserts. At the center of the deep forest, crawling with enough unimaginable beasts to keep any prisoner from trying to escape, the sinners are taken to an immense, heavy-looking buildings with granite doors and bolts no sinner could behold without trembling. But even closed doors …show more content…
Those who sinned against God by committing the sins of idolatry, blasphemy, heresy and sacrilege are nailed to planks of wood, much like the Savior they denied, and are lowered upside down into pits of fire. Those who sinned against oneself by lacking moderation or restraint with regards to worldly pleasures are placed in a room with all their greatest desires, but these desires remain unattainable as the sinner engages in an endless chase, which only brings destruction by the demons surrounding him or her. Those who sinned against oneself by committing suicide continually attempt to kill themselves but always fail and are always faced with the pain of never truly being able to die. Those that sinned against others through murder, adultery, deceit and theft receive the actions they committed done by those they hurt. Thus, one again the punishment lines up based on the sins