view #2 . Their view takes the rich man (Caiaphas) and Lazarus as literal until the two men die when the events pass into the realm of Jewish myth. The main difference is that we believe that the conversations after death were real, or at least typical, whereas all Christadelphians reject any possibility of any consciousness in hades. Does the fact that God is described in symbolic language as having hands and eyes take literally take symbolically (anthropomorphism) reject existence GOD God has hands, ears, face: Isa 59:1-2 God has wings Ps 36:7 God has literal flesh and bone body with wings God exists in the otherwise indescribable spirit world and is therefore described in symbolic terms humans can relate to. Because God is described in non-literal language God doesn't exist HELL The wicked will be cast into the garbage dump of Jerusalem ( Gehenna ) which is also described as a lake of fire The wicked will be burned up with literal fire, in a literal lake of fire in the literal Jerusalem city dump A literal lake of fire and a literal city dump are two irreconcilably contradictory concepts if taken literally. They are therefore word pictures and symbolic language used to express what is otherwise indescribable since Hell is in the spirit world and is therefore described in symbolic terms humans can relate to. Because the destruction of the wicked is described in non-literal language there will be no actual destruction of the wicked. HADES There is