Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. (12:18)
Yesterday I told you the fact that one of the Sadducees’’ religious character was to follow the orthodox law. Their assertion that there will be no resurrection also was rooted in such attitude. It signifies their assertion that soul and body will be vanished together is not wrong.
The Old Testament generally doesn’t say about the life after death. Mainly the scripts written in the late period of Israel’s history only hint resurrection idea. Isaiah 26:19 is one of the representatives of this idea. “But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.” We can summarize it in this way that the resurrection idea of the Jews blossomed from the later period of Israel’s history; speak to in detail, revelation literature. The Sadducees couldn’t recognize resurrection for they were devoted to the classical and orthodoxy law.
Even today there are many Sadducees who don’t accept resurrection. They don’t accept resurrection based on the knowledge of natural science. They regard a demonstrative fact as the truth. Even Christians also do not believe it though they say outwardly to believe resurrection. Or on the contrary there are some people who regard resurrection as mere incarnation level. As we can see it from the following story, the Sadducees argued with Jesus understating resurrection in this way. They thought marriage life would be extended even in the kingdom of heaven.
Knowing the point what resurrection is the more important point than the argument whether there is resurrection or not. If we think resurrection merely as the reborn of the dead, that is, thinking it as a simple extension of life then there will be no such resurrection as the insistence of Sadducees. The right recognition and hope is possible only to know the creation from nothing and the mystery of life by Jesus’ resurrection.
Yesterday I told you the fact that one of the Sadducees’’ religious character was to follow the orthodox law. Their assertion that there will be no resurrection also was rooted in such attitude. It signifies their assertion that soul and body will be vanished together is not wrong.
The Old Testament generally doesn’t say about the life after death. Mainly the scripts written in the late period of Israel’s history only hint resurrection idea. Isaiah 26:19 is one of the representatives of this idea. “But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.” We can summarize it in this way that the resurrection idea of the Jews blossomed from the later period of Israel’s history; speak to in detail, revelation literature. The Sadducees couldn’t recognize resurrection for they were devoted to the classical and orthodoxy law.
Even today there are many Sadducees who don’t accept resurrection. They don’t accept resurrection based on the knowledge of natural science. They regard a demonstrative fact as the truth. Even Christians also do not believe it though they say outwardly to believe resurrection. Or on the contrary there are some people who regard resurrection as mere incarnation level. As we can see it from the following story, the Sadducees argued with Jesus understating resurrection in this way. They thought marriage life would be extended even in the kingdom of heaven.
Knowing the point what resurrection is the more important point than the argument whether there is resurrection or not. If we think resurrection merely as the reborn of the dead, that is, thinking it as a simple extension of life then there will be no such resurrection as the insistence of Sadducees. The right recognition and hope is possible only to know the creation from nothing and the mystery of life by Jesus’ resurrection.
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