They will do the same thing that Paul exhorts, make prayers and supplications and give thanks for all men.
They will do the same thing that Paul exhorts, make prayers and supplications and give thanks for all men.
Seems to me that you guys don't put all that much stock in the scriptures...It's like you use the scriptures as an outline for your tradition...
Jesus left us some pretty good hints on the subject...
Luk 16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
The rich man could not communicate with Lazarus...And likewise, Lazarus could not communicate with the rich man...But apparently, they could see each other since the proximity of Hell and Abraham's Bosom were close enough to see each other...
Luk 16:27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
Obviously the dead Lazarus wasn't in the business of traveling to and from Abraham's bosom, or anywhere...
Luk 16:28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Lazarus was not able to communicate with the folks back home...The rich man knew that to communicate, Lazarus would have had to make the trip...And the indication is that the people back home couldn't communicate with the rich man or Lazarus...
Luk 16:30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
Obviously not true...One did show up from the dead and most still do not believe Him...But look at the response...
Luk 16:29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
Now we know that the rich man's family didn't have Moses and the prophets...They were long dead...
But what the family did have was the words of Moses and the prophets in the scriptures...That's what Abraham said...They wouldn't believe the scriptures, the words of the Holy God...
Abraham told the rich man that there will be no communication from those in Hell or Abraham's Bosom with the friends and family back home...
That leaves us with Jesus and Jesus alone...