{"id":5023,"date":"2014-02-10T00:05:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T08:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2014-02-09T15:10:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T23:10:33","slug":"sadducees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2014\/02\/10\/sadducees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadducees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesus was approached by some Sadducees\u2014religious leaders who say there is no resurrection from the dead. They posed this question: \u201cTeacher, Moses gave us a law that if a man dies, leaving a wife without children, his brother should marry the widow and have a child who will carry on the brother\u2019s name. Well, suppose there were seven brothers. The oldest one married and then died without children. So the second brother married the widow, but he also died without children. Then the third brother married her. This continued with all seven of them, and still there were no children. Last of all, the woman also died. So tell us, whose wife will she be in the resurrection? For all seven were married to her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tJesus replied, \u201cYour mistake is that you don\u2019t know the Scriptures, and you don\u2019t know the power of God. For when the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. In this respect they will be like the angels in heaven.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cBut now, as to whether the dead will be raised\u2014haven\u2019t you ever read about this in the writings of Moses, in the story of the burning bush? Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said to Moses, \u2018I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.\u2019 So he is the God of the living, not the dead. You have made a serious error.\u201d (Mark 12:18-27)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tJesus told the Sadducees that their ignorance was showing. The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection, because they believed only the first five books of the Bible, Genesis through Deuteronomy and could find nothing in those books about an afterlife. They did not believe the rest of the books of the Old Testament were authoritative scripture. According to the Law of Moses, if a man died childless, his brother was required to marry the widow. The first child born from the union would then carry on the name, and take the inheritance, of the dead man. The purpose of this law was to keep property in the dead man\u2019s family. <\/p>\n

\tTo prove the existence of the resurrection, Jesus quoted from what the Sadducees accepted as scripture. Besides not understanding scripture, Jesus told them that they were blinded by their own culture. They were wrong to assume that the social relationships they knew in the present day would endure in the kingdom of God. The post-resurrection future with God would be nothing like the world. We can see the future only dimly: it will surprise us.<\/p>\n

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