[Quix]

As a psychologist who’s listened to thousands of hours of narration about personal life experiences . . .

the visitation narratives do NOT sound contrived to me, at all.

Certainly you can claim to be a better psychologist than I am.

[DManA]

Luke 16:27"He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, 28for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'

29"Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'

30" 'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'

31"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.' "

How do you reconcile this with the jesus of the stories who command the kids to warn the world?