This is sadly in error.
For
a full example of the weight of SCRIPTURE taken in its totality proving this wrong, (with all of the verses and chapters clearly included and referenced),
see the pdf booklet by e.w.bullinger on the rich man and lazarus. (free online).
It is long and complete , from all SCRIPTURE, showing the fallacy of
the quoted post.
Beginning excerpt (total 20 pages or chapters online):
"The Rich Man and Lazarus: An
Intermediate State?
Luke 16:19-31
E.W. BULLINGER, D.D.
In dealing with this Scripture, and the subject of the so-called intermediate state,
it is important that we should confine ourselves to the Word of God, and not go to Tradition.
Yet, when nine out of ten believe what they have learned from Tradition, we have a thankless task, so far as pleasing man is concerned. We might give our own ideas as the the employment's, etc., of the \u201cdeparted\u201d, and man would deal leniently with us. But let us only put God's Revelation against man's imagination, and then we shall be made to feel his wrath, and experience his opposition."
from (temporarily available free):
The Rich Man and Lazarus by E.W. BULLINGER
Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong and his son Garner Ted quoted E. W. Bullinger on the Lazarus and the Rich Man parable.
I have heard all of that before..... but
there are so many scriptures that even indicate that it isn't only
saints and prophets and followers of Messiah Yeshua who have some
consciousness after death.
Eze 32:21
The
strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Asshur
is there and all her company: his graves
are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
There
is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they
borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves
are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they
borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of
them that be slain.
There
is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves
areround about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
And they shall not lie with the mighty
that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though
they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with
them that are slain with the sword.
There
is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by
them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
There
be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are
ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with
them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude,
even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD."
Near death experiencers report being ashamed for any unkind word or deed that they did toward anybody else..... or toward an animal.
