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Glenn - If I believed like Mormons there is no fire there so it's not such a bad place. Don't need water, if I believed like Mormons, as its all figurative.DAVEH: How did you come to that conclusion? I looked up 'parable' in THE NEW BIBLE DICTIONARY (JD Douglas, Organizing Editor) and it says this about the "real Lazarus"........I don't believe it's a parable. I have never know Jesus to speak in parables and name names.
"When the truth to be taught is something beyond the experience of His listeners the parable not only becomes more fictitious but more didactic in character, as in the case of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Lk. xvi. 19-21) where Jesus concludes the story with the emphatic utterance: 'If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.'"
........So Glenn, despite what you say you believe, it is obvious that a Protestant publication directly teaches the opposite. You are obviously spinning this to convince people that LDS theology does not understand the Bible like you do. But now I know the truth despite your claim to the contrary....Christianity teaches that it was a parable, and not an actual event. So Glenn, I guess your previous comment "Why do Mormons insist on changing what has been written many years ago in their doctrines?" might more aptly apply to you, eh! <VBG>
No, I believe this is a literal real Lazarus, fire, etc. But I believe the Bible only. I don't believe in Joe Smith to get me to heaven.--
Spin machine? I just told you the unfettered truth, Glenn, and you were
not listening. I am getting frustrated trying to save your soul, and you
won't allow it. I am really, really afraid you are going to end up in
that "place," where Dives went because he would not give food or drink to
poor Lazarus, the begger at his gate--where they suffer in the spirit,
and wist they could have a few drops of water to quench the burning, but
are prevented from getting help as there is this great gulf between
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