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Not at all. Luke simply chronicled and gave an account of what handed down from eyewitnesses and servants of the word (Luke 1:1-4). The analogy was Jesus', not Luke's.

In Luke's retelling of Jesus' address to the Pharisees, he used the Greek concept of Hades that was popular during that time period to illustrate a point to them.

From what I've read, it would seem that the thought that we have souls as opposed to us being souls is flawed. The entirety of myself is my living soul. My "spirit" is my personality. None of those things are separate from me, they ARE me, and when I die they cease to exist outside of the...

Where in the scriptures does it detail what the afterlife is like?

The concept of an afterlife is missing from biblical teachings. What we find in scripture is life, death, then a resurrection with nothing in between death and it.

My pleasure: 1 Samuel 2:6-8 (the song of Hannah) Job 14:9-15 (The Patriarch's hope) John 11:21-26 (Martha & Jesus) Daniel 12:2 (The Prophets) Ecclesiastes 9:5-10 (Solomon)

For this analogy, I don't see how what the Sadducees believed would have any relevance. What I am espousing however, is that in Luke 16 Abraham's Bosom is not an actual place but rather represents the favor of the Lord promised to Abraham's children. I agree, it's clear that Jesus was...

As a warning to the Jewish leadership that their assumed favored position as Abraham's seed and heirs would be given to others and they would regret their wicked ways that brought about their fall from the favored position in "Abraham's Bosom."

In Luke 16, if you pay attention to who Jesus' audience was, we see that it consisted of his disciples along with the Pharisees and scribes as well (Luke 15:2), and it is to them (the Pharisses) that he directs His reproof (Luke 16:14-15). Immediately after talking about them, Jesus begins with...

I see no evidence for this being the true reality. Both biblical and scientifically, the evidence points to us being physical creatures, living souls. What evidence suggests this? And this "spirit" is different from our consciousness how? The word spirit though attempted to be used as a...

I am very familiar with text passages you referenced, I just believe that Luke 16 was allegorical. This best reflects my understanding: https://christianforums.net/Fellowship/index.php?threads/the-rich-man-lazarus.33116/#post-532829

I totally agree that many texts exist that mention the spirit of a man. What do those texts describe that spirit as is the question. What is this "spirit of a man?" Is it a way to describe a person's personality? Is it referenced as being able to life on after a person ceases to be alive? Is it...

A couple things. First, Jesus didn't go to Paradise that very day as Jesus later told Mary after his resurrection not to touch him for he had yet to gone to his father (John 20:17). The second point is that I can't say for certain what the writer's objective for say "Today" was. Did he mean that...

I believe them texts equally the same. They must be harmonized and understood TOGETHER as all are a part of the very same Word.

Job, Samuel's mother, and Solomon all described death as a "sleep" of sorts where there was nothing. What each said was that God would call and then the dead would be resurrected. The OT taught that there would be a resurrection of the dead, Mary and Martha echoed this in John when referencing...

Does the verse being from Ecclesiastes mean it's any less true than the verse in John which doesn't contradict it? Doesn't taking on the "whole council of God" require that the Old and New Testaments be harmonized? It's not that the Sadducees didn't believe in an afterlife, for they believed in...

Tangent alert: 1 Corinthians 15 is a chapter that really perplexes me. I've gone a few years thinking a had a full grasp of it and then I reread it and end up scratching my head. I have found it a bit of a challenge to reconcile with other resurrection passages like John 5:28-29. My bridge has...

I do not share this take. It seems to me that Pentecost in Acts 2 is a more likely account as well as those that would be alive at Jesus' coming on the clouds in the 1st century for his called ones. Not exactly. In Rev 20, it says the martyred saints would reign with Jesus for 1000 years. It...

Make it at least 2 men who think no............

It seems that scriptures teach that when we die we are DEAD and the dead know nothing. Sometime after death, there will come a resurrection (John 5:28-30) where judgment followed by a judgment where some will be gifted with life under the reign of the Kingdom of God while others will be punished...