OH PLLLLLEASE are you not reading the very scriptures you are talking about here??? The rich man didn't ask Lazarus to bring him some water. The rich man asked Abraham to send Lazarus with some water to put on his tongue.
I need to tell you that you are not making fun of me or arguing against what I am saying. Your making fun of the Word Of God and the words of Christ. It was Christ who used the words sleep, sleepeth and awaken, not me.
I can see now why you are confused, Your using a different version of the bible than I am and it has been corrupted. In the KJV and several other bible versions the word
"standing" is not in verse 23. Which means that without any evidence who ever created your version of the bible added a the word "standing" to verse 23 which contradicts what Christ stated which was that Lazarus was sleeping and needed to be awakened. There is absolutely no proof that Lazarus was standing but most people lay down when they are sleeping.
If I were you I would burn that bible and throw the remains into the trash and get a more accurately translated Bible.
Another error you are making is the you and I and everybody else has a body of flesh, a spirit and a soul. We have three distinct sections just like God does and the flesh rots but the spirit and soul live for ever and go to sleep waiting for resurrection day.
1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Dan 7:15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
Luk 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
The phrase
bosom of Abraham occurs only once in the
New Testament, in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus in the gospel of Luke (
Luke 16:22). Leprous Lazarus is carried by the angels to that destination after death. Abraham's bosom contrasts with the destination of a rich man who ends up in
Hades (see
Luke 16:19-31). The account corresponds closely with documented 1st century AD
Jewish beliefs (see above), that the dead were gathered into a general tarrying-place, made equivalent with the
Sheol of the
Old Testament. In Christ's account, the righteous occupied an abode of their own, which was distinctly separated by a chasm from the abode to which the wicked were consigned. The chasm is equivalent to the river in the Jewish version, but in Christ's version there is no angelic ferryman, and it is impossible to pass from one side to the other.
The unique phrase found in a parable of Jesus describing the place where Lazarus went after death (
Luke 16:19-31 ). It is a figurative phrase that appears to have been drawn from a popular belief that the righteous would rest by Abraham's side in the world to come, an opinion described in Jewish literature at the time of Christ. The word
kolpos [
kovlpo"] literally refers to the side or lap of a person. Figuratively, as in this case, it refers to a place of honor reserved for a special guest, similar to its usage in John 13:23. In the case of Lazarus, the reserved place is special because it is beside Abraham, the father of all the righteous. The phrase may be synonymous to the paradise promised to the thief on the cross (
Luke 23:43 ). Together these passages support the conviction that a believer enjoys immediate bliss at the moment of physical death.