What exactly do you think jesus and his deciples were doing before he left us? They PREACHED THE GOSPEL Using “types” and labels makes you stray away from the PREACHING 🙏🏾bless you🙏🏾
I beg to agree with you Miss Davis. Luke 16:19-31 is a historical account not a parable that conveys moral lessons. Though Christ speaks to multitude of people through parables, in Luke 16:19-31 Jesus was speaking to a specific group of Pharisees not a multitude of people.
1. David, Job, Solomon, Hezekiah, and others state that the dead do not praise God. They were right. The Holy Spirit would not inspire repeated lying if what they said was not true. 2. The so-called intermediate state was developed by Hellenized Jews duting the intertestamental period. They adopted the Greek concept of Hades. The Greeks believed in the immortality of the soul, and upon death these disembodied souls would go there. Hades was divided by a chasm (the river Styx being one of them), where a ferryman named Charon ran the place. Hellenized Jews replaced Charon with Abraham, Adam, or all three Patriarchs. 3. The Pharisees did believe in Abraham's Bosom, but with a twist: The rich and healthy would be go to the "good place," while the poor and sickly would be tormented. 4. Notice the silliness of taking the parable literally: Lazarus has teeth and a mouth. He can drink water and urinate, and he longs for a drop of water, the latter which would dissolved instantly in a fire. 5. "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord" is misquoted. We are all looking for that blessed hope, the glorious appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. If at death we meet Christ, we would not long for his appearing. We would just go back to the grave from heaven, get a new body, and be resurrected to meet Christ for the second time. 6. Was David ever with Christ? In a temporary state? No. "For David has not ascended to the heavens." David was asleep and still is asleep.
I prefer your method of teaching as compared to most. You're not "preachy", you're more of the scholarly type -- I like that.
~Steven of Montreal
What exactly do you think jesus and his deciples were doing before he left us? They PREACHED THE GOSPEL Using “types” and labels makes you stray away from the PREACHING 🙏🏾bless you🙏🏾
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Sheol is literal! Shalom
I beg to agree with you Miss Davis. Luke 16:19-31 is a historical account not a parable that conveys moral lessons. Though Christ speaks to multitude of people through parables, in Luke 16:19-31 Jesus was speaking to a specific group of Pharisees not a multitude of people.
1. David, Job, Solomon, Hezekiah, and others state that the dead do not praise God. They were right. The Holy Spirit would not inspire repeated lying if what they said was not true.
2. The so-called intermediate state was developed by Hellenized Jews duting the intertestamental period. They adopted the Greek concept of Hades. The Greeks believed in the immortality of the soul, and upon death these disembodied souls would go there. Hades was divided by a chasm (the river Styx being one of them), where a ferryman named Charon ran the place. Hellenized Jews replaced Charon with Abraham, Adam, or all three Patriarchs.
3. The Pharisees did believe in Abraham's Bosom, but with a twist: The rich and healthy would be go to the "good place," while the poor and sickly would
be tormented.
4. Notice the silliness of taking the parable literally: Lazarus has teeth and a mouth. He can drink water and urinate, and he longs for a drop of water, the latter which would dissolved instantly in a fire.
5. "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord" is misquoted. We are all looking for that blessed hope, the glorious appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. If at death we meet Christ, we would not long for his appearing. We would just go back to the grave from heaven, get a new body, and be resurrected to meet Christ for the second time.
6. Was David ever with Christ? In a temporary state? No. "For David has not ascended to the heavens." David was asleep and still is asleep.