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No, it's just dogs doing gross things. They will lick blood when they can. They are dogs. Nothing more is expected of them because they are dogs. They will eat their own poo too. And then lick your sores. Lazarus didn't want that. He is obviously too weak to shew them off. or they are...

Who cares? It does not change the meaning. And has nothing to do with dogs licking the sores of Lazarus being a negative to Lazarus and not something God sent to heal his wounds. My coming back tomorrow will not change this. Just read a few good commentaries and I am sure you will agree...

He was a Jew who followed the Law and the faith of Abraham which was if it was by faith allowed him to be justified and thus he is taken to Abrahams bosom which also declares that he was faithful to the law and this would include agreeing with the law about dogs being unclean.

I have made my case. I think we all know it is was an "add insult to injury" detail to describe the pitiful plight of the beggar, and a detail that the jew of the time understood, but you are questioning it because of the 2000 year cultural gap. Keep studying. It will make sense in time as...

You lost me. I think this is what happens when we don't stick to sound hermeneutics. LOL

We are not privy to his thoughts about the dogs but we can assume that he did not suddenly change his Jewish upbringing to want to be licked by dogs and despised by his country men as unclean as a result. It was not just the pharisess who despised dogs, even Paul and John use the term to label...

It doesn't matter in this case there is no suggestion or even a hint from the text that the licking of the dogs was supposed to be understood as a positive but rather it is suggested by the text that it is a negative experience for the beggar and therefore we should simply take it as...

Just stick to the immediate text for any suggestion of shame or healing and you see shame in the "moreover even the dogs.." Then find out how dogs were viewed by the common person at that time, and what dogs licking a beggars sores would have meant to them at that time. To do that one must...

There is no suggestion that the licking of the dogs prolonged his life. Instead it declares the fact as an "add insult to injury" declaration... 0And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover...

I believe it is meant to be a picture of the humiliation of the beggar. In that culture it would be like saying, people spat on him when they walked by. The dogs were despised by Jews. It is like saying "And to top it all off... Dogs came and licked his sores" and the listeners to this...

1) It was not very helpful or effective since the beggar died. No hint of healing from licking dogs is mentioned. 2) I think if you fact check it you will find that though dogs do use this method for their own wounds (howbeit it is not very effective , as it is very easy for dog wounds to get...

Now you are talking about an Allegory. There is no need for the objects and examples in a parable to represent something else to teach a lesson. Is it an allegory or a parable? There is a difference. I concede that it could be a parable. I do not concede that it is an allegory. If it is...

I am curious. How did the dogs help him? I don't see any indication that the dogs were sent by God. Seems like dogs did what dogs do. They are gross like that and eat their own poo too. It seems to me that the dogs are in the story to reveal that this was not a scene at the rich man's...

You are not identifying what the Lesson of the Parable would be with this kind of rhetoric. The "ah ha" moment of the Parable was... "If they don't believe Moses and the Prophets ABOUT THE PLACE OF TORMENT that awaits the wicked dead, then they won't believe it if a dead man comes back and...

Again... that TRUTH could only be that... The bible teaches about a place of torment that awaits immediately for the wicked dead. That was the "myth" that you say they understood to be a familiar idea? Well it was not so familiar an idea for his brothers but he wanted them to be warned about...

Paul said it was their choice. They could marry and if so, they were not sinning. Not to think it was more moral to stay single. But if they could stay single that would be better as far as being undistracted and not having to deal with the temporal things of this life such as...

I hear you. I find it difficult to assign it to the literary form of a parable also, however even if one does assign it to the literary form of a parable then one is even MORE constrained to follow the RULES of that literary form and identify the lesson. The lesson would be highlighted by any...

The Parable lesson was...."if they won't believe the scriptures about THIS PLACE OF TORMENT" then they won't believe if Lazarus came back from the dead and shocked them with a supernatural appearance and "Warned them about the place of Torment" that awaited them. Wasn't that the plain meaning...

What does that mean? She didn't have any rituals to observe after she became a Christian? I don't understand your point. People who get born again and filled with the Holy Spirit through Faith in Jesus Christ make Jesus their life 24x7. There is never a moment that they live that they are...

9Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them. 10We have an altar from which those who serve the tenta have no right to eat. 11For the bodies of those animals whose...