Because Lazarus went to HEAVEN....you can’t go to heaven with SINS on your soul....you Protestants say that all sins are the same, so IF he did have sins on his soul he would NOT be in heaven since GOD cannot look on sin.
Jesus told the parable, Jesus was the first in heaven.
The point of Lazarus and the rich man? Here it is:
Luke 16:27-31 NKJV
“Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’ ”
Jesus told his disciples in Luke 24 that Moses and the Prophets testifies of Him. That would be that Jesus is the promised Messiah. With Lazarus in the bosom of Abraham we can conclude he believed this testimony.