Subject: how do we know people we never met |
Bible Note: Hi, Don... That's correct parables are, indeed, didactic in nature. However, parables always teach a single point. Drawing multiple points from them goes beyond their original intent. Lazarus and Dives was not a parable given to believers to enable them to understand the afterlife. Instead, it was a parable directed at the Pharisees (see Luke 15:16a). Context is everything when it comes to proper interpretation. Speaking of parables: If you like, I'd commend you to post #157835. There I offer the general principles that a student of the scripture ought to apply in order to arrive at a sound exegesis of parabolic teaching. In Him, Doc |