How is that possible. Your brain and heart stop working after you're dead.
This parable Luke 16:19-31 is just that, it's a parable and it is not describing the afterlife between death and the first resurrection as many might see. The word 'Hades' refers to torment only once in the whole entire Bible, and this parable is the only time. All the other times the Bible mentions Hades, referring to the grave. Hades is greek for grave, and Sheol is Hebrew for grave. A parable is a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. Jesus was rebuking the Jewish leadership and speaking of the kingdom being taken from the Jews. Jesus was drawing on an OT passage that they would be very familiar with. In Deuteronomy there is what is known as the song Moses. The song of Moses speaks of Israel's rebellion against God, in it we find this passage in which Jesus was referring to..Deu 32:16-27 Hades - The word translated (hell) in this passage is Hades. God said a fire is kindled in my anger and shall burn to the lowest Hades. This passage is speaking of Israel's rejection of God, and Jesus is alluding to this, the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man. Deu 32:22 is a metaphor meaning that there is nowhere they can go to escape God's wrath. In other words it is absolutely certain. - DRS81