![]() God's hands, ears, face: Isa 59:1-2 arms: Ex. The descriptions of God in these literal ways are symbolic word pictures because they are outside human experience. These literal items are symbolic word pictures because they are outside human experience. These literal items are describe in literal terms because they are within human experience While body and soul are separated in the spirit world While body and soul are united within human realm We cannot reject that God actually possesses "something like" hands, eyes and ears any more than we can reject that there is something "like fire" in Hades Just as God Himself is described in the same kind of symbolic "earthly" word pictures or "anthropomorphisms" (possessing literal hands, eyes, ears) so too Luke 16 is described in the identical type of word pictures.Commenting on Luke 16: "What is important for us to grasp is that Christ used the mental images conjured up by this rabbinic parable to teach that, in the hereafter, the wicked experience torment and the righteous bliss." (Death and The Afterlife, Robert Morey, p.We reject that all the specific elements in this section of the narrative are to be taken literally. The scene in Hades in Luke 16 after the rich man and Lazarus die is likewise described in symbolic language.(see " word picture photo gallery" of heaven) Heaven is described as the literal "most holy place" in the Mosaic tabernacle (Heb 9:11) yet we easily see that this is a symbolic word picture employed to describe the real thing.(see " word picture photo gallery" of hell) Most recognize that hell is not literally a valley outside the city of Jerusalem, but it is a figure or a symbol or a "word picture" that illustrates the real place of eternal punishment in human terms. ![]()
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