Yes, I do. However the Eastern mind and storytelling is different than the Western mind and storytelling. The audience were familiar with the circumstances and people involved in Jesus' parables. They understood the meaning easily. The Lazarus and Abrahams' bosom allegory would likewise be recognized by the audience for what it is - an illustration of the horrors of Hell and not a literal event.
Yes, but I took your insistence that it was mere allegory or metaphor, and not a parable, to mean that you denied even the reality of a Heaven or a Hell into which souls had already - at the time the narrative was told - been inducted; that Jesus did not wish to imply even that the souls of, for instance, beggars and/or rich men had already been sent to the Hereafter, where they retained their consciousness and could, e.g., beg for Abraham to send Lazarus to warn relatives.
I took your remark to mean that you were an adherent of the school of thought that, upon death, one enters an unconscious state, a sort of spiritual suspended animation, until Judgement Day.
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