The fact that a parable somehow made its way into Christian “facts” on the afterlife is beyond me.) A parable is a simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson – it is not fact, and should never be taken as one.
He was not discussing theology or telling an actual story. (However, please note that in Luke 16:20-23 Jesus is telling a parable. They also teach that this is the place that Jesus was referring to when on the cross when he said:Īnd Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.Įspecially since according to their theology it was not the appropriate time yet for man to be able to be in heaven. And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried. And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham.
#Limbo vs purgatory full
Although now scholars generally refer to it as the Bosom of Abraham.Īnd a poor man, by name Lazarus, was laid at his gateway full of sores, and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man but the dogs also coming licked his sores. Basically that all of the “righteous dead” who died before Jesus went to some kind of limbo or purgatory. So, I gave her the accepted bible school answer. Now this was far from the subjects that we were discussing, but this was something that was bugging them for quite some time and they wanted my opinion on the matter as someone who is currently studying theology. Today a friend of mine randomly asked me “What do you think happened to all of the Old Testament people after they died? Did they go to heaven even though Jesus had not died for their sins yet?”
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