[mdmathis6]

Well the question of hell and purgatory seems a bit muddled.

There is the Lazarus the begger and the rich man parable in which he died and "in hell he lifted up his eyes" and he saw Abraham comforting Lazarus "in his bosom". The rich man begged for a drop of water to cool his thirsty tongue from Lazurus and Abraham reminded him of the kindness he did not bestow on Lazarus. In that parable Christ himself speaks of there being consciousness after death and the ability to recognize others in spirit. People have argued that we were witnessing a kind of Purgatory state especially Lazarus being comforted in Abraham's bosom while the rich man certainly was in hell!

Of course the reason of the parable was to point out the uselessness of signs to bolster the truth, as Abraham pointed out"They have Moses and the prophets, if they will not believe them...neither will they believe somebody who was raised from the dead!"

[Havoc]

The problem is they're both dead. You'll note that it was refused for the dead to go to the living. You are trying to establish one happenstance with one that has no bearing upon it. Two dead people talking to one another in the afterlife is hardly foundational for a living and a dead person communicating in violation of the statutes of God.