Therefore their priests and other preachers cite the “experience” of the rich man to back their teaching that the wicked, after death, are tormented everlastingly in the “fire” of hell. They hold the view that it is not a parable. The foregoing passage is given a literal interpretation in certain religious circles. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither wilt they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.” “And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets let them hear them. I pray thee therefore father, that thou wouldest send him to my fathers house: for I have five brethren that he may testify unto them lest they also come into this place of torment. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. “But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame. “And it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died and was buried and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. “There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full or sores and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. It is recorded at Luke 16: 19-31, as follows:. In the first place, it will be necessary to reproduce, word for word, Luke’s account in regard to what Jesus Christ said about Lazarus and the rich man. This was one of the famous parables of Jesus Christ in which he expressed vital truths and taught important lessons, and by which he also distinguished himself as a teacher of great intelligence and perfect wisdom who came from God. THE lessedness that would mark the end of the faithful and the hopeless future of the unfaithful, notwithstanding their worldly and material achievements, were depicted in the parable concerning Lazarus and the rich man.
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