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I’d be grateful if you could post this for the sake of others who have been and still are, interested in this discussion, that they not think I am ignoring them or have needlessly abandoned the thread. Which is the perception given if you are going to censer debate and stop me buying and selling. Un...

Also the fact that he is a beggar at the rich mans gate tells you he is spiritually hungry unlike the dogs licking his sores.
God has drawn him but gods servants (Jewish priests) are not feeding him.

Brandon you keep referring to this parable as a indication of afterlife. If you had read the link instead of pestering me to basically rewrite it in my own words you would understand the deaths both had was the swapping of positions. The death of the position of the spiritually wealthy Pharisee into...

More on the dog licking sores. https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/licking-the-lick-granuloma/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Although it gives temporary relief like itching it only makes the sore worse. As so is the spiritual sores from living in darkness, made worse by the gentil...

Brandon most of your questions are answered in the link.

I believe in universal salvation but only through coming to faith in Jesus/yeshua.
Which all will do eventually as we pass through gods refining fire of judgement.

Your first point on the dogs and sores. These have spiritual meanings. Matthew 15:26-27 New International Version (NIV) 26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” 27 “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s t...

Just to add another connection in this parable. Eliezer was Abraham’s servant who was outside the gate in regards to bloodline and was to get inheritance before god changed it. After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying: ‘Fear not, Abram, I am thy shield, thy reward ...

I’ve been meaning to sharing this after reading your thoughts that this parable is a pagan corruption. Let it not be so. It comes as the last parable of a series that exposed the Pharisees and prophecied judgement. The same judgement that was repeated in many parables. When Jesus heard this, he was ...