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If the Lord told a story of a man who died and was in torments in Hell (Lk. 16:19-33)

That is the story of Lazarus and the rich man. It is not about our fate after the great white throne judgement. It is also not about what a lot of people think it is about.

Here:

http://jeremyandchristine.com/articles/lazarus.html

And if you had been a Jew living at that time you would have interpreted that story completely differently than we interpret it today. This is actually true of a LOT of the bible. Sometimes we need to stop listening to our teachers and get back to studying the word on our own.

Come to think of it, that was an issue in Jesus’ day...

That is the story of Lazarus and the rich man. It is not about our fate after the great white throne judgement. It is also not about what a lot of people think it is about. Here:

It is not about the GWTJ, but what happens before it. And i already refuted the specious attempt by Smith in the link you posted, as another poster had tried that just before you. Thus i had provided the links to my posts earlier on.

That is what you need to do, as it is you who sent me to some Smith, but the fact is that Lk. 16 cannot even be simply speaking about the Jews vs. the Gentiles even if it is a parable, for as said, in parables you have know physical things corresponding to spiritual things, but if annihilationism is true then there cannot be any postmortem torment in Hell, which would render this to be science fiction, which the Lord never used. Instead, if the rich man represents the Jews, then the "place of torment" that they go to would be a spiritual Hell. But the careful details of the story and use of real names points to it being a real story.