Rich Man and Lazarus

There has been so many distorted misconceptions about the rich man and Lazarus. We formulate ideas about that because we have tunnel vision. That tunnel vision that we have concerning this story or any other story in the Bible limits us from expanding our minds and challenging the tradition that we have been brought up with. Samuel Wilberforce said it this way "Intelligent criticism can become the pathway to spiritual discovery, and that is true, because unless we challenge something, unless we critique something, then we will never go deeper than the shallow, or the surface thinking on that particular subject."