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I tried to post this photo in a PM to someone here, but I don't think it worked. Thanks again to Jay Ross for helping me get it at least in this part of the forum.

Thank you.

I agree. This was not DNB's instigation.

I can't see any way to do this.

A very interesting and thoughtful perspective. Thank you for that.

Let us not get too sidetracked with a name... Latinized form of Λαζαρος (Lazaros), a Greek form of ELEAZAR used in the New Testament. Lazarus was a man from Bethany, the brother of Mary and Martha, who was restored to life by Jesus. See All Relations · Show Family Tree Related Names Other...

No, not at all. I am saying that as I now can assess and evaluate information better than I could when I was younger, my understanding is based upon far more than it ever was when I was listening, almost exclusively, to teachers who naturally may have been simply passing on the particular...

That, especially, is the reason we need to be so very careful that we thoroughly understand WHY we are believing the esoteric stories with which we have been inculcated. The Catholics, the Jews, the JW's. the LDS', the Hindus, Shintos, et al, are all just as convinced of the stories THEY have...

Probably true. You are seeing what you were told is there. I did too... until I began searching beyond the limitations of the teachings of my teachers all my life.

No, you didn't dream it up. You were told by someone else, just like I was, and we each chose to believe the conclusions others came up with.

Although he is not named in the Bible, but only described as "Abraham's servant" (Genesis 24:34), Jewish tradition has that his name was Eliezer.

Most of us are blinded into thinking the condemnation of "sin" is considered by a particular action — worse or less evil by the vileness of a specific thing we "do." Thus, you hear us consistently judging others and comparing ourselves with them by the "degree" of sinner THEY are because of the...

Then you have to invent some way to circumvent the Scripture of "no one ever having gone to Heaven before." Doing that, you enter directly into the Catholic idea of Purgatory. And since we want to discount that mindset.... if you want to sidestep Purgatory somehow.... you still have to have...

:rolleyes:

Do you really think people in Heaven and those in Hell are going to be carrying on conversations with one another?

Yeah, I imagine Jesus worked hard to make things as confusing as He could for His listeners. Do people sit up nights trying to dream all this stuff up? LOL

In any of this, ask yourself what Jesus' intent was. Was He trying to tell people something about the kingdom.... or just to see if He could confuse them with a story about going to Hell if you weren't generous?

Do you think it might be because the company staff didn't require any of the visitors I can see in the picture to wear masks?

All that verbosity simply to ignore the fact that we are told, pretty emphatically, that Jesus never spoke to the crowds, except in Parables. (Matthew 13:34 Mark 4:34)

It's actually "6", because the Rich Man was also one of the "brothers." The Song of Deborah, widely acknowledged as one of the oldest passages in the Torah, mentions six tribes, Ephraim, Benjamin, Machir, Zebulun, Issachar, and Naphtali; Machir is described as a tribe in its own right and the...