Abraham's Bosom. Anther idiom.
Lazarus was not lodged into Abraham's pectoral muscles.
You are completely conflating entirely different issues.
I didn't say anything indicating "the Bible... [is] only 'idiom' when it supports the opposite view?"
That sentence makes no sense.
Do you even know what an 'idiom' is?
Again, I don't think you understand what an 'idiom' is.
'Eternal life' is a phrase. It is a figure of speech that means more than the sum meaning of the words making it up.
"Lake of Fire"
"Son of Man"
These are all figures of speech. Idioms.
Lake of Fire is a word-picture of the place of eternal punishment for hell.
Not a literal lake of fire.
Son of man is a figure of speech based on the passage in Daniel where it talks about the great 'one who looked like a son of man...'.
The phrase also simply means 'human'.
English itself has tons of idioms and figures of speech.
Hebrew did as well.
The Jews imported those into Greek.
'Son of' is also a frequent Hebrew figure of speech referring to one who is the quintessential example of said thing.
'Son of Perdition' = One who encompasses what it means to have perdition.
'Son of Thunder' = One who is the embodiment of roaring and power.
'Son of Hell' = Embodiment of evil. Similar to the English figure of speech: Evil Incarnate.
'Father of' is another figure of speech.
'Father of Eternity' = Ruler and creator of all time.
And so on.
Context gives clues indicating these figures of speech. As does historical study.
I love you to much to argue as we both know arguments never win any thing.
Blessings
That's why Lazarus is in Abraham's bosom.
Um....
Ah well, maybe we can just agree to differ
I was thinking of it more as a discussion than an argument.
Ultimately, God knows the full truth, and we will one day... until then I am very aware I could be wrong about very many things.
God bless you too, brother
Does God love a Christian who supports this, and will they go to Hell?
Found this logo on another thread as the sig of a so called Christian!
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