RE: How was Lazarus supposed to get there to drop a little water into his mouth, and what good was that supposed to do him? Wouldn’t the fires have burned Lazarus?
I don’t know how that question invalidates the reality that the rich man was in CONSCIOUS torment.
The place he was in was also mentioned — HADES.
If you want to argue that his torment is TIME LIMITED, maybe you might have a point, but the reality of the torment cannot be ignored.