Luke 16:24
""And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.'"
Does the story of Lazarus and the rich man teach that all rich people go to hell?
> Luke 16:19-31, the story of Lazarus and the rich man, is sometimes interpreted as telling us that rich people should go to hell, and that poverty guarantees admittance to heaven. We could point out that the issue was not poverty or wealth, but how the rich man's heart was inclined. If the point of the story is that the rich go to hell, and the poor go to heaven, then what was Abraham, a wealthy tribal chieftain, doing on the Paradise side with Lazarus?