Hell and Heaven
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HEAVEN AND HELL: IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE: PROF.M.M.NINAN<br />
Later rabbinical sources preserve several traces of the Bosom of Abraham teaching. In Kiddushin<br />
72b, Adda bar Ahavah of the third century, is said to be "sitting in the bosom of Abraham", Likewise<br />
"In the world to come Abraham sits at the gate of Gehenna, permitting none to enter who bears the<br />
seal of the covenant" according to Rabbi Levi in Genesis Rabba 67. In the 1860s Abraham Geiger<br />
suggested that the parable of Lazarus in Luke 16 preserved a Jewish legend <strong>and</strong> that Lazarus<br />
represented Abraham's servant Eliezer<br />
However, by the time of Jesus, Judaism generally believed that it was not possible to pass from<br />
one side of Sheol to the other (Luke 16:26).<br />
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