Well you quoted exclusively from the WEB to make your case.
So if I had quoted exclusively from the KJV would you condemn me for using that translation too?
I know of no literal translation that use the word simile or allegory (with the sole exception being Paul and Jerusalem above and below)
Okay, I'll do the work for you. Here's just one example:
Matthew 13:18 (KJV):
(18) Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
Matthew 13:18 (YLT - Young's Literal Translation)
(18) 'Ye, therefore, hear ye the simile of the sower:
Matthew 13:18 (LSV - Literal Standard Version):
(18) You, therefore, hear the allegory of the sower:
If Jesus said, "there was a certain man" One must present cogent evidence to prove that Jesus did not mean what He said!
Matthew 13:3 (KJV):
(3) And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Luke 13:6 (KJV):
(6) He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
Jesus was telling a fictional story, he was not referring to an actual person - he was not a journalist reporting on an actual event, or spreading gossip. Similarly, when he said "a certain rich man" in Luke 16 he was not referring to an actual real person - it was just a fictional story.
Here's an extract from an article from a website that no longer exists, that I picked up 24 years ago:
The Rich Man and Lazarus
Luke 16:19-31
It is evident from the whole setting of this passage that it is a parable.
Otherwise the logical lesson to be drawn from it is that unless we are poor
beggars, full of sores, we will never enter eternal bliss; and that future
torment will be our portion if we happen to wear fine linen and purple and fare
sumptuously every day. And, if taken literally, those who are poor are taken,
not to heaven, but to Abraham's bosom. However, the context of this passage
shows that Christ in this parable was teaching a great dispensational truth,
namely, the change of favor from the Mosaic Law Covenant to the Covenant of
faith. (Luke 16:16-18; Galatians 3:6-29) If you read carefully the 32nd
chapter of Deuteronomy, you will see that Jesus was merely repeating in vivid
pictorial language what Moses had already said. See particularly verses 20 to
29; and also Paul's quotation of the 21st verse in Romans 10:19, where he shows
that Moses' prophecy referred to the overthrow of Israel consequent upon Jesus'
rejection of that nation.
Jesus was evidently drawing upon something that was in the real world, the
apostate Jewish belief which blended the Grecian philosophies into the Bible.
The Jewish leaders knew of these beliefs and it was the Jewish leaders that he
was addressing. He used their own beliefs, not to condone their apostate
beliefs, but to illustrate the change he had just spoken of: "The law and the
prophets were until John." -- Luke 16:16.
Some other reasons that this story should be viewed as a parable:
To think that Jesus was supporting the idea of eternal roasting after death by
use of this parable is contrary to God's justice, for justice demanded the
forfeiture of man's life for sin (Genesis 2:17), for "the wages of sin is
death" (Romans 6:23), and of God it is said (Psalm 145:20): "all the wicked
will he destroy." Therefore, it would be an infraction of God's justice for him
to preserve the wicked and eternally torture them.
Additionally, such a conclusion violates God's wisdom, for wisdom devises plans
which useful ends are attained. There is surely no useful purpose in keeping
the rich man eternally in a place of torture.
Of course, the parable says nothing about Lazarus remaining in hades for
eternity, but as Revelation 20:13 shows, all in hades will be brought back for
the judgment day, and then hades will be destroyed in the lake of fire. --
Revelation 20:14; See also Hosea 13:14.
If the Rich Man were in literal flames in hades, this could contradict the
entire testimony of the rest of the Bible, which shows that sheol/hades is
nothingness, oblivion, silence, destruction. -- Ecclesiastes 9:10; Psalm 6:5;
115:17; 146:3,4; Isaiah 38:18; 63:16; Job 14:21; etc. This has been shown
throughout this publication.
(Psalms 146:4) His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
It would contradict God's stated purpose to bless mankind. -- Genesis 12:1-3.
It would contradict the ransom, which is clearly taught, for example, in 1
Corinthians 15:3,21,22, Hebrews 2:9; 1 Timothy 2:6, which scriptures teach that
Christ died (not suffered eternal torment) for our sins according to the
Hebrew scriptures. The prophecy of Isaiah 53:4-12 shows that our Lord would
bear our penalty (which is death -- Genesis 2:17; Romans 6:23 -- not eternal
torment), pouring out his soul to death. The effect of this ransom is to be the
salvation of all men, not the eternal torture of the vast majority. (1 Timothy
4:10; 1 John 2:2)
