Ok why do you believe the story of the beggar and Lazarus to be literal when the Scriptures say that Jesus?

would not speak without an ILLUSTATION? Don't you realize that the Scriptures say that no-one has ascended to heaven accept he that descended from heaven? That means no-one went to heaven before Jesus, Get It? So the beggar could not have gone to heaven because Jesus had not gone yet, he spoke the illustration.