The Rich Man and Lazarus: A Story About Hell, or a Parable About Something Else?
In our last article, Do the Hard Texts Teach Eternal Torment?, we examined several passages often used to support the idea of eternal conscious torment and found that, in their context, many describe final destruction rather than endless suffering. Yet one passage still raises questions for many readers: the story of the rich man and Lazarus. In this well-known account, Jesus describes a rich…

















