Among the tales of the many miracles that Jesus Christ made, mention is
made of the resurrection of Lazarus, brother Mary and Martha, on the fourth day
after his death: "and the deceased, entwined on his hands and feet with
funerary veils, and his face was strapped with a handkerchief. . Jesus tells
them: untie him, let him go " (John 11.38-44).
When they want to emphasize that a man miraculously healed from a grave
ailment, he is called a "resurrected Lazar." Also, the resurrection
of Lazarus is sometimes referred to as old, as the world, ideas or
organizations returned from oblivion to life.
But even if the truth - alive and daunted not changed the old man - is
it exactly characteristic of our time? Most people of this type are lazars, who
are not resurrect even the miraculous power of art.
(M. Gorky, "Reader's Notes")
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This Testament passage is the teaching of Christ himself that death is
like a dream, and the resurrection from the dead is an awakening, as can be
seen from the following words: "Lazarus, our friend, has fallen asleep;
But I am going to awaken him "(verse 11). The immortal soul, leaving the
body, does not exist, and in the death of the conscious state is not present
(Psalm 146.4, Ecclesiastes 9.5-6,10). It is not only pagan beliefs, but also
lies, which Satan himself invented (Genesis 3.4). Only God is Immortal (1 Tim
6.16).
And now it
will be appropriate to mention another Lazarus from all the known parable.
The fact that the Jews at the time of Christ believed in the immortality
of the soul and the fact that after the death of the righteous fall into
heaven, and Sinners to hell. They believe in this to this day and even in the
fact that during sleep the soul flies out of the body and returns only in the
morning. The first morning prayer Judea is gratitude for the return of his soul
to the body (by the way, the ancient Egyptians believed). By this parable
Christ does not teach that the soul is immortal, but only wants to say that
each person decides his eternal fate, while he is alive, after his death,
nothing can be corrected and will not help either prayers for the dead, nor
donations of money to the church, nor Alternate baptism for the deceased and
nothing else.
The parable of the Rich and Lazarus (Luke 16.19-31) cannot be considered
literal because:
1. Man can not see without eyes, hear without ears and think without
brains, besides, it is strange that in this story the souls have fingers and
tongues.
2. What huge size should be "the bosom of Abraham" to
accommodate all the righteous, and where did those who were born before
Abraham?
Besides at that time (and now) it was considered that the beggar cannot
be righteous, and wealth is God's blessing and salvation can be bought for
money. But the Bible teaches the opposite: money extracted by greed, meanness
and deception will lead man not to salvation, but to destruction.
"For behold, All Souls are mine: both the soul of the father, and
the soul of the Son, mine: the Soul Sinneth, that will die" (Ezekiel
18.4).
"For I do not want the death of a dying man, saith the Lord God;
But ask, and live!" (verse 32).
"The Wages of sin is death, and the gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus, the Lord
(Romans 6.23).
APPENDIX
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