tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306541039479223907.post3338362461774134607..comments2023-10-02T03:43:26.637-04:00Comments on Pas Graphe: The warningLamar Younginerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10509068142522510594noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306541039479223907.post-31652503922806160232012-05-09T08:19:25.096-04:002012-05-09T08:19:25.096-04:00Ovidiu, Thanks for your comments. I hope I did not...Ovidiu, Thanks for your comments. I hope I did not misconstrue the thought that this was a picture of heaven. I believe it is a picture of what is often referred to as Sheol. I believe that Sheol was divided into two sections “Paradise” and “Place of torment”. Those in Paradise were taken to heaven after the resurrection of Christ and those in hell are still there until after the Great White Throne Judgment per Revelation 20:11-15. <br /><br />When Christ arose and ascended into Heaven, the Saints were called forth and also ascended AFTER Him (Matthew 27:52-53). Christ was the first to Ascend. In other words, the doors of “Paradise” were open and the Saints went to Heaven. The place of Torment is still filling up and will do so until the Judgment seat at which time they will be Judged and cast, along with Satan, into Hell. Thoughts?Lamar Younginerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10509068142522510594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306541039479223907.post-6134383735587740892012-05-04T22:59:08.954-04:002012-05-04T22:59:08.954-04:00As much as I appreciate you and your blog, this ti...As much as I appreciate you and your blog, this time let me tell that I not agree with the interpretation of the PARABLE from Luke. If people in heaven are going to be communicating with people in torment through eternity, that’s a very hideous, grotesque picture.<br /><br />Another thing is it talks about one drop of water cooling the tongue of a person who’s in torment. Well that’s obviously an exaggeration. And then finally, it says that the beggar who dies and is saved goes to Abraham’s bosom. There’s no other Scripture anywhere that says that all the saved go to the bosom of Abraham. If that’s true, then he has one very large bosom because there have been a lot of saints who have died through the ages.<br /><br />So there’s so much symbolic language in this that if we take all of the pictures literally, we’re going to come up with a very distorted picture. The lesson in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus is always missed because people use it to try and prove the state of the dead and hell using pagan assumptions.<br /><br />The lesson is, that the rich man, who is a symbol of God’s people who have the truth that are not sharing their food with the poor, the lost, they may find that in the Judgment the poor are saved and the rich are lost. We have a responsibility to share the Gospel. Just like Jesus was telling His Jewish brethren that if you do not share it with the Gentiles, you might find that many come from the East and the West and sit down in the Kingdom with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and you will be cast out and the Gentiles will be in.<br /><br />For the church today, it’s the same message. If we are building walls around our church and saying, ‘We’re saved because we’re Christians and we’re going to study our Bibles together and forget the lost of the world’ – in the Judgment we might find out we really didn’t love our brother. We’ve been hoarding our food so to speak, while they’ve been starving for the crumbs of the Gospel.OvidRadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12473987263259357025noreply@blogger.com