What's your view on Hell?

[Esaias]

Here's an interesting article delving into the genre of the story in question:

https://www.ministrymagazine.org/arc...an-and-Lazarus

[coksiw]

Originally Posted by Esaias

Here's an interesting article delving into the genre of the story in question:

https://www.ministrymagazine.org/arc...an-and-Lazarus

The article argument is almost convincing. Basically the parable, which would be a "reality" for the Pharisees but not for Jesus, is rather a sarcasm.

That could be an appealing explanation, however, when I'm presented with verses like Matt 10:28, or Luke 23:43, or other verses from Paul I posted before, I would have to do a lot of acrobatic hermeneutics to explain them from the soul-sleep point of view.

However, I can explain the apparent contradiction between OT and NT in this topic by attributing it to a greater understanding of the afterlife in the NT, which is probably the result of deeper diving into the Scripture during the captivity and the second temple period. Probably the answer to this question: if there is resurrection, how are our memories, consciousness, will, self, etc... preserved? there must be then something that remains after death.

Basically, "soul" in the NT, comparing with the OT, has a new dimension, or an added meaning to it: what remains after you die.

Words being used in a different dimension in the NT, adding to their semantic range, is not a new thing. Look at the word "flesh", and how it is used in the OT, and how Paul uses it in the NT to mean sometimes sinful nature.