God is the God of the living.
Abraham was clearly alive and well in Paradise.
JLB
Thanks I would offer. .
Clearly dead asleep like no possibility in any help on earth. The Holy Father does fine all by his own self . He is not served by human hands as a will.
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
There is no communing with the dead(necromancy) The certain rich with the things of this world but no wisdom of all things written in the law and prophets (sola scriptura) through necromancy was asking dead Abraham, whose flesh and blood long ago turned to dust to help him out of his situation.
Again the parable is all about the impossibility of serving two good teaching masters as one unseen Lord . False prophecy oral tradition's of dying mankind as false apostles
Or true apostle with
true prophecy as
it is written in the
law and its outward testimony
the prophets The testament of faith "Let there be and the testimony. . . . . . the good prophets send with the gospel of God as it is writen.
The word of God all things writen in the law and prophets opposes necromancy the living seeking after the dead Rachel was found guilty of hiding the family image idols needed to put a face on the legion of gods just as King Saul when God refused to cone with him .She saw
gods the
legion below . . .
Mark 5: 6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is
Legion: for
we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a
great herd of swine feeding.And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea