This is the fourth or fifth time this verse has been quoted to you in response to your claim that "Abraham's bosom" appears nowhere in the Bible. Read the whole passage, please, and then make your case that there is no such thing.
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
Read the entire passage.
Luke 16 KJB :
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
^^According to verse 23, the rich man is in Hell. He looks “UP” & sees Abraham & Lazarus (far away) in Heaven. This indicates the rich man is “down”.....makes sense, since Heaven is above; Hell is below.
Abraham is embracing Lazarus, giving him a hug, which explains why Lazarus is in his bosom.....THAT is what the rich man sees when he looks up from Hell.
“Bosom” has ONE Biblical meaning: the frontal chest area.
Abraham’s “bosom” is his CHEST AREA......NOT a geographical location!
This is confirmed in verse 25 when Abraham says Lazarus is “comforted”. Abraham is hugging Lazarus, because Abraham is also in Heaven.
Abraham was saved, as the Bible says his faith was counted as righteousness:
“For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.”......Romans 4:8 KJB
When you hold/embrace a person in your bosom (chest), that means you are hugging them. Hugging is an act of COMFORTING someone, is it not??
When we have a tornado come through (we get about 2-4 annually), we go into this special mini-basement shelter/safe room underground that we access through the floor of the closet beneath our staircase. When my daughter hears them approaching (they are incredibly loud, with a very distinct sound—like a massive freight train, or a roller coaster at top speed) she becomes afraid.
I take her into my bosom to comfort her. That doesn’t mean she is actually climbing into my chest cavity, or that my bosom has detached and become a supernatural holding cell, does it? No, it simply means I am hugging her.
You guys are turning your misunderstanding of Luke 16 into a false doctrine.
You say that Luke 16 was not a parable, and I agree, so why don’t you believe the literal meaning when it says Lazarus was in Abraham’s bosom (Lazarus was hugged by Abraham)?
That is what it means everywhere else in the Bible:
“And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee:
I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.”....Genesis 16:5 KJB
^^^^If “Abraham’s bosom” is a supernatural place that OT saints went to upon death, please explain how Abraham’s wife sent her maid (Who was ALIVE) to Abraham’s bosom & she got pregnant? How did she return if she (according to your explanation of the purpose of Abraham’s bosom) had to stay there until after Christ died and went down to fetch those who were held there??
“And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and
laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.”......1 Kings 3:20 KJB
^^2 baby boys, one dead, one alive, both going to a “bosom”, but clearly NOT “Abraham’s bosom”...does that mean the dead baby went to Hell? Or perhaps the “wrong” bosom??
Can you please expound on this for me, because I thought babies went to Heaven when they die but that one went to a woman’s bosom instead of Abraham’s. Why??
How can ALL these different bosoms exist apart from Abraham’s? Are these all different supernatural holding cells?
“Now there was
leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.”.....John 13:23 KJB
^^^So here we have John leaning on Jesus bosom. Both are alive.
Taking your theory of Abraham’s bosom being an underground place dead OT saints go to until Jesus fetched them just DOES NOT match up with all the other uses & descriptions of “bosom” in the Bible.
They ALL seem to be speaking of a person’s physical, frontal chest area......in BOTH the NT AND the OT.
Yet you claim out of all the mentions, the one in Luke 16 means something completely different than all the others, even though the other occurrences corroborate one another??
AND add to that the fact that NOWHERE else in the entire Bible is it mentioned that some other realm within the heart of the earth exists a place called “Abraham’s bosom”.
You take the passage in Luke 16 literally ........everywhere EXCEPT the word “bosom”.
It seems much more likely that YOU are misunderstanding Luke 16.
As I said, if you just compare Scripture to Scripture and let the Bible define itself, it is clear as a bell......no need to listen to people who tell you to translate anything into a language you don’t understand, or isolate one verse and create a doctrine contradictory to its meaning, which is consistent everywhere else in the Bible.
Whoever taught you that strange doctrine of Abraham’s bosom was deceived, or a deceiver.
