At the time of that writing, many things had not been revealed yet. among them was the tripartite nature of man
2 Timothy 3:16 (TLV):
(16) All Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for restoration, and for training in righteousness,
No, for it is written in the present. Just like thei9s {
this?} verse is in the present:
Ephesians 2:6
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Just because it is written in the present tense, to indicate it is a done deal, doesn't mean that it is literally referring to the present time and not to the promised future events. It takes only a tiny amount of common sense to realise that the early Christians, and us today, are not in the heavenly Jerusalem or in heavenly places. He meant that because of our belief in the Gospel we are reckoned as citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem, and we will one day (after our resurrection) reside there. Similarly, Philippians 3:20-21 (WEB):
(20) For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
(21) who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
We will reside in heaven but we have to wait for Jesus to return and resurrect/change us to have a similar spiritual body to his. Only then is it possible for us to get into heaven, for it is a spiritual place, not part of the physical universe in which we currently live.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 (WEB):
(16) For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
(17) then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
1 Corinthians 15:50 (WEB):
(50) Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
We can only inherit, and share in God's heavenly kingdom, after we have been changed, and not while we are still flesh and blood (human).
There are things that are ture that defy human logic- we must accept them by faith.
They only defy logic if you don't understand them. You've misunderstood what Paul wrote.
No. all parables contain a comparative term such as: "such as," like, is as, can be compared to. The Lazarus account names names which no parable does.
Where in the rule book of parables does it say that nobody in a parable story is allowed to have a name? I can give you an example - Luke 16:19-31!
Jesus also said there was a man, so there was a man.
Yes, he said, Luke 16:19 (WEB):
(19) “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
Just like in other parables, e.g. :
Luke 12:16 (WEB):
(16) He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
Luke 16:1 (WEB):
(1) He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
They were not real men - Jesus made up the story!
If it is a parable then please explain the meaning, for Jesus used comparisons of earthly things to describe spiritual things.
It's too lengthy to go into it in detail here. The context is that he was talking to the Pharisees - Luke 16:14-15 (WEB):
(14) The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
(15) He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
As Barnes Notes says:
The “design” of the narrative is to be collected from the previous conversation. He had taught the danger of the love of money Luk_16:1-2; the deceitful and treacherous nature of riches Luk_16:9-11; that what was in high esteem on earth was hateful to God Luk_16:15; that people who did not use their property aright could not be received into heaven Luk_16:11-12; that they ought to listen to Moses and the prophets Luk_16:16-17; and that it was the duty of people to show kindness to the poor. The design of the parable was to impress all these truths more vividly on the mind, and to show the Pharisees that, with all their boasted righteousness and their external correctness of character, they might be lost.
Wrong this event is shown before the first resurrection. Jesus is not a sloppy inspirer. He has this placed before His return and before the first resurrection, and before the battle of Armageddon. He doesn't need human editors to say He meant to show it was after. He knows that a normal usual reading , a believer would place this before He returns.
Christians, represented symbolically in Revelation by the 24 elders, have been resurrected and are up in heaven in chapter 4. They witness Jesus take the book (scroll) from the hand of God and open the seven seals, and the events that follow. Chapter 19 is one of the events that follow. It describes the 24 elders (resurrected Christians) in heaven before God's throne, and then of the marriage supper of Jesus and the Church. Jesus doesn't marry his bride and then return to the earth for his bride. This is clearly describing events after the resurrection of the Church.
I take into account that Paul writes that when one is absent from the body, they are present with the Lord.
You obviously don't understand there's a long unconscious sleep (death) in between the two. He does not say that as soon as we die that we are given our new body; he merely states that we will be given a new body, which he elsewhere states occurs in the future, at the first resurrection. All Christians are resurrected and caught up to be with Jesus as the same time, so clearly we are not resurrected at the moment that we die. But as death is an unconscious sleep, our next conscious thought after our death will be when we are resurrected, so it will seem to us like going to sleep at night and then waking in the morning; we won't have to endure waiting around for hundreds of years. But it is evident that while we are in our human body that we are absent from being with Jesus. Being with Jesus is a future event that we look forward to, which wil occur after the resurrection of the body of Christ (the Church).
2 Corinthians 5:1-9 (WEB):
(1) For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
(2) For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;
(3) if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.
(4) For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
(5) Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
(6) Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
(7) for we walk by faith, not by sight.
(8) We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
(9) Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
so a person has more than a body and when they are absent from the body, they are present with the Lord. that is why I knoe that Lazarus is true, Abrahams bosom is true(paradise where the soul+spirit of the penitent thief went with Jesus.
But in the parable the poor man, Lazarus (which means, 'whom God helps'), was not in heaven with Jesus. He was within earshot of the rich man who was in hell. He was with Abraham, not Jesus.
Also in rev. 19 a great crowd shouts. also the martyred souls of the trib cry out for justice and tolsd to rest- they can't do that if they are nonexistent.
That does not occur in chapter 19, it happens after the fifth seal is opened - the Church has already been resurrected before any seals are opened. Don't forget that it is symbolic, just as Abel's blood calling to God was symbolic, not real - Genesis 4:10 (WEB):
(10) Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
) - Revelation 20:14 (KJV):
