RE: The parable is not about how long he will be there. It’s not brought up.
OK, so we both agree that this teaching ( I still won’t use the word parable ) CANNOT be use to support any idea of the DURATION of punishment.
However, can we agree that CONSCIOUS PUNISHMENT does exist in a SPECIFIC PLACE?
However, can we agree that CONSCIOUS PUNISHMENT does exist in a SPECIFIC PLACE?
There will be weaping and gnashing of teeth, but I see that in the same way there was weaping and gnashing of teeth when some men had a noose hung around their neck. And the gnashing of teeth wasn’t in sadness or pain. It was in anger.
And then the lever is pulled.