[af_vet_1981]

You do understand this is a story?

Can you point to the scripture that says this scripture is a story ?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

af, please. The whole chapter is a collection of parables aimed at the pharisees.

Even if you overlook the context to try to prove your claim, you are left with two people who died - one in a good place and one in a bad place can talk to each other and to God.

This does not prove anything about living people on earth communicating with departed saints in heaven.

[BlueDragon]

aMorePerfectUnion had said;

You do understand this is a story?

It may have been more than simply only "a story".

af_vet_1981's own rather snarky reply;

Can you point to the scripture that says this scripture is a story ?

So you'd like to play it that way, huh?

Ok, how about yourself [af_vet_1981] do something of the same thing (a not unreasonable request, since you had just demanded from another something similar) and show from scripture where the passage you cited that included Jesus Christ's own mention of such place as "Abraham's bosum" ---should be interchangeably considered that he was talking about Heaven ---instead of Abraham's bosum, at that time anyway, be some place of Sheol?