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No. Nobody can tell you any more than that angels are spirit beings, but nobody knows what a spirit being is. I suspect that spirit beings can access other dimensions which we humans do not have access to, and we can't imagine what that is like. You're living in fantasy land! Where is the...

Again, that's totally irrelevant to whether or not an angel is "someone who has repented their sin", as you stated in post #3. Are you claiming to be an angel?

So what? Lawyers are still human. A man remains a man when he changes his job; he doesn't change into a fish or any other kind of being. Use common sense!

Clearly not. So your first wrong belief led you to into a second wrong belief. 1 Corinthians 8:4-7 (WEB): (4) Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one. (5) For though there are things...

What nature you have has got nothing to do with repenting of sin. Is a human not a human unless he repents of sin? Was God not God before he repented? Exodus 32:14 (WEB): (14) Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

Satan was a high form of angel, a cherub. Ezekiel 28:13-16 (WEB): (13) You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in...

Absurd! When you are dead you have no thoughts and you cannot do anything - that's the definition of being dead. So nobody can raise themselves from death (which is why we need a saviour). The Scriptures are clear, it was God, our Father and Jesus' Father, who raised Jesus from the dead...

It is Albert Barnes, not Albert Banks - can't you get anything right?! You were disagreeing with my definition of a parable. I thought that you might respect the definition from a more learned and respected person than me. Obviously I was wrong about that. More information from e-Sword Bible...

Albert Barnes' Notes (for Matthew 13:3) says: The word “parable” is derived from a Greek word signifying “to compare together,” and denotes a similitude taken from a natural object to illustrate a spiritual or moral subject. It is a narrative of some fictitious or real event, in order to...

It doesn't appear that you understand it! You're just confusing me again. I can't understand what you're saying! Again, such garbled English. Spiritual words have a set of words they use? As I said previously, your communication skills seem quite poor. I'm not going to even attempt that...

No, I don't think it destroys my argument. My argument was that the parable gives no indication of a resuscitation to life again, so it is not talking of a near death experience. The Dictionary.com definition of a near death experience is: a sensation or vision, as of the afterlife, reported...

Yes, some words can have more than one meaning - which makes communication and understanding more difficult than if all words had only one meaning! Some words even have the same spelling but different pronunciation for different meanings, to confuse things even more! e.g. we wind a clock; the...

A parable is a fictional story. When Jesus spoke a parable it was a made-up story, not a description of events that had actually happened.

What makes you think the story is of a near-death experience? It says, Luke 16:22 (WEB): (22) The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. At no point does it say that Lazarus revived and came back to life again. The...

A parable is not literally true. If a story is literally true then it is not a parable, by definiton. You're confused and confusing people again! Thee is only one correct understanding of words. If words could have any meaning that we want, then the language is useless to us. The Scriptures...

For a longer, more detailed explanation of the parabe, see Why Hell is not a place of eternal conscious torment.

In Luke 16 Jesus tells the parable of the dishonest manager (steward), which was aimed at the Pharisees who were lovers of money, and had not used their earthly gifts of wealth and opportunity for heavenly aims, but for earthly aims. The parable showed them that with their love of money they...

No you didn't! This was your post (#8): I think that most people understand the question of this topic, "Is the story of Lazarus and the rich man literal?", to mean is it a true literal (not figurative or allegorical) story or is it a parable? (A parable is a fictional allegorical story...

You claimed that the story of Lazarus and the rich man was a literal story, i.e. a true story and not a parable. So yes, I do expect you to answer with evidence to support your claim that the story of Lazarus and the rich man is not a parable? And again, why did Jesus tell this parable/story...

Well obviously it is a prophecy telling of Satan's final end. It doesn't say that Satan has already been killed and does not exist any more; it says that Satan will be changed to be a man at some future point (I would suggest that will be at the end of the Millennial Age, when Satan is released...