[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.

[mdmathis6]

No the point of the parable was to...establish in people's minds that God does take notice of one's deeds on earth and that he has set up appropriate punishments and to make a further point that people will believe or disbelieve according to faith or the hardness of their hearts, in spite of having the truth given to them thru various prophets and teachings. Christ pointed out that even a person who had been raised from the dead would have trouble convincing the living to live a Godly life!

I was responding to the notion of purgatory and one could argue there seems some evidence for it in scriptures other than Maccabees. I'm not convinced of it personally, but I do believe God acts multi dimensionally and transtemporally and there is a lot we have not been given to under-stand what goes on behind the veil.