Rosenritter
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Luk 16:22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,
Luk 16:23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
Luk 16:24 And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.'
Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
not outside of scripture Jesus tells us
1 rich man died
2 rich man buried , therefore body in the ground
3 rich man in Hades & fire therefore has to be his spirit or soul can't be his body
4 rich man is talking to Abraham who is dead & buried can't be Abraham's body either has to be his spirit
now
Rev 20:13 tells us that there are people that are raised from Hades which means there
has to be people in Hades
peoples physical bodies are buried in graves & the Sea not in the fire of Hades
1. Continuing to cite the setting of the parable does not resolve your problem of treating the setting of the parable as if it were actual and factual so that your isolated interpretation of the passage is in direct conflict with every other scripture.
Hell (Hebrew sheol or Greek hades) is not on fire in any other passage of scripture... at least not until the end judgment when it is cast into fire. So either the hell of this parable is hades in the judgment (when it is set on fire) or it is a different hell such as the well-known setting of the Hades of the Greeks.
2. And you are only technically correct, that peoples bodies are not buried in the fire of Hades... because a "fire of Hades" is only a story setting.
On the other hand, we know that Jesus was buried in Hades, as told us in Acts 2:31. And as a bonus, from the quotation we know that the greek hades is the same as the Hebrew sheol.
Acts 2:27, 31 KJV
(27) Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
(31) He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Psalms 16:10 KJV
(10) For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
And to dispel any notion that hades does not apply to physical bodies:
Psalms 49:14 KJV
(14) Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Sheep are laid in the grave (sheol, same as hades).... it obviously isn't an otherworldly realm of fire.
Psalms 141:7 KJV
(7) Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Sheol (hades) is spoken of having an opening where physical bones can be scattered.