Another thing needed for it to be an actual event is there being any reference to a place of torment mentioned in Moses and the Prophets for the rich man or his family to even be aware of. There isn’t.
I see there is a reference to a realm of the dead, the grave, but not even one jot or jittle penned about a place of torment in the OT. That’s extremely curious since they needed to listen to Moses and the Prophets to receive advanced warning, but in those very texts there are no warnings of torment.
It says the wicked are destroyed and that the dead know nothing.
That’s also a major clue this is a parable.
it is like all Of Jesus teachkngs he is teaching us about something we can’t know he is t recounting something he saw but is teaching wisdom from God and revelation into the afterlife what happens after a men die to thier spirit
note Both have died they both lives on earth and then died the poor man suffered on earth his home wasn’t here the world rejected him and left him all alone and broken
the rich man flourished in the world it embraced him
yet this man had no compassion on the other in need he didn’t love in deed and truth
“My little children,
let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And
hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.”
1 John 3:18-19 KJV
he lacked the works of faith
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If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”
James 2:15-17, 24, 26 KJV
faith without works produced can’t help us but brotherly love will