228. The Word teaches that people live after death, as for example, that God is not the God of the dead, but of the living (Matt. 22:32); that Lazarus after death was taken up into heaven, but the rich man was cast into hell (Luke 16:22, 23ff); that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are there (Matt. 8:11; 22:31, 32; Luke 20:37, 38); that Jesus said to the thief, Today you will be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43).