Yeah, right... it is a "parable" wink, wink.
1) What a ridicules argument. It is a story not a parable! No parable ever includes the names of real people.
2) Even if it is a parable it is still about Hell. WHy would Jesus add a "parable" of hell if hell is not real? Jesus would never tell a "parable" if it was not about true?
Jesus said "
22“Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom.." Luke 16:22
Why would Jesus say that after Lazarus died the angels carried him to Abraham's bosom, if there is no such place? Why would Jesus even talk about life after death if it is not real? Why would Jesus say the rich man was in torment after death if this is not true for some?
Jesus used parables to teach kingdom principles. The only principle I can see taught in this "parable" is that we are warned of Hell. We are informed of a reward or a dire punishment. Unless you plan on twisting this further.
Utterly ridicules.
Well your choosing to ignore the scriptures posted below in the other post about this. . And I did say it Was a true account. But presented in a parable. And to give you an father, example .
To show an example. and to try to illustrate farther, what a figure of speech looks like in the Bible.
I will post the parable, of Lazarus and the Rich man. Where it shows the burning. And I will post a scripture, for burning, in a emotional state as well.
Luke 16:24
24 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.
( In the course of study, you should find, that this flame is and torment, is the Rich man describing his emotions about the situation he finds himself in. Which is basically prison, a gulf between him and God, that he cannot cross without Christ . This is the situation he is in, awaiting Judgment day. And you can read the full account and no doubt hes distressed about it and in immense Shame. Not pain. )
Another example of using this form of a figure of speech in a slightly different way:
1 Corinthians 7:9
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to
burn.
( In this case, its to burn with Passion . Not a literal burning, following the subject of its better to marry some one then to burn in a sexual way for some one. In that case, get married. )
Romans 1:27
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman,
burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
( In this case, its used in the same sense, but here its speaking about a sin here )