However, according to the Bible, this is exactly how God intends for us to live. Luke 16.20 introduces us to the story of Lazarus, a beggar, who "full of wounds" laid at the door of a rich man (p. 317). In this parable both Lazarus and this rich man die. Lazarus was “carried up by the angels into Abraham's bosom” or into heaven (Luke 16:22, p. 317). The rich man went to hell where Abraham indicates to the rich man "in your lifetime [you] received your good things, and Lazarus likewise his bad things; but now he is comforted, and you are tormented" (Luke 16:25, p .317). Next the rich man pleads with Abraham to go to his father's house where his family lives and ask them to testify that he is a good person. Abraham is right that if his family refuses to listen to the living (i.e. Moses and the prophets), the dead will not persuade them. Perhaps if the rich man had been Lazarus' guardian he would have found the gates