Subject: where is Christ battling Satan in HELL |
Bible Note: You are taking a view of Judaism that is not universally taken by all schools of orthodox Christian theology. Your view is called the reformed view and not all share that view of Jews. But no matter, I did not quote the Talmud as an authority on matter but rather to show what the Jews believed before Jesus ever spoke this parable. The real question to me is, if the Jews had a distorted or incorrect view of Hades would Jesus have reinforced it by repeating it in his teaching? I think not. If the view was in fact wrong I would think Jesus would have said you believe this but you are wrong as He often did. However in this case we see no such correction being made. I believe that fact and that fact alone confirms that Jewish view of Hades was indeed correct. And that Jesus included it in his parable because it was known to all the listeners and would make sense to them. Again I did not reference the Talmud as anything other than a historical account of what the Jews already believed. |