Outside the Gate is based on Luke 16: 19-31
What is this parable about?
This parable is variously seen as a parable about rich and poor, about life after death, or about the Pharisees of Jesus’ time. The speculation that it’s about the Pharisees is mainly because this parable is told a few verses after Luke says that the Pharisees loved money.
There’s no real evidence that the Pharisees were particularly rich. The rich man in the parable has the kind of wealth that was more associated with the Sadducee group. What is possible is that Luke meant that the Pharisees bought into what we’d now call the ‘prosperity gospel’. That is, the idea that God blesses the very faithful with wealth and good health.
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