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The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (4) (Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios)

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Eighth. In the parable, it says that between the place where Abraham was and hades, where the rich man found himself, there was a ‘great chasm’. And that it wasn’t possible to cross from one side to the other. Naturally, this is not any particular place, but, as we mentioned above, a particular manner of existence. There’s a clear distinction between Heaven and Hell as a specific way of life. Heaven and Hell don’t exist from God’s point of view but from ours. God sends His grace upon all people, since ‘He makes the sun rise upon the righteous and the unrighteous; and the rain fall upon the wicked and the good’. If God’s given us a commandment to love all people, ...

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