aiki
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Jesus also taught about what happens after we die in his parable about Lazarus the Beggar and the Rich Man. In every other parable that Jesus taught he used what was familiar to his listeners and what was real to analogize. Some would like to argue that in this one instance with Lazarus and the Rich Man, Christ abandoned both characteristics of his parables. Suddenly, he was resorting to total fiction in teaching his truth. But why would he do so? Consider the following quotation:
"Think about it for a minute: If at death people simply lapse into a state of non-existence or unconsciousness, then what is the point of Luke 16:22-28? Are we to conclude that Jesus was teaching something based entirely on a falsehood - something that was wholly untrue in every way? If the rich man and Lazarus were not conscious after death, then the answer would have to be yes....Clearly, Jesus never illustrated His teachings with a falsehood. We must conclude that Luke 16 portrays a real-life situation and should be taken as solid evidence for conscious existence after death. Any other interpretation makes an absurdity out of the text." - Ron Rhodes "Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Jehovah's Witnesses." pg. 326.
Selah.
"Think about it for a minute: If at death people simply lapse into a state of non-existence or unconsciousness, then what is the point of Luke 16:22-28? Are we to conclude that Jesus was teaching something based entirely on a falsehood - something that was wholly untrue in every way? If the rich man and Lazarus were not conscious after death, then the answer would have to be yes....Clearly, Jesus never illustrated His teachings with a falsehood. We must conclude that Luke 16 portrays a real-life situation and should be taken as solid evidence for conscious existence after death. Any other interpretation makes an absurdity out of the text." - Ron Rhodes "Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Jehovah's Witnesses." pg. 326.
Selah.
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