The Sadducees were a group of the Jewish people who did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. They did not believe in the afterlife because none of their Rabbis could find a Biblical text to prove the existence of it. Any Rabbi had to be able to quote a text from the Torah, the five books of Moses, to sustain a theological position. Consequently, it was permissible to hold the belief as did the Pharisees or to deny it, as did the Sadducees.
Jesus is the first Rabbi in history to find a Biblical text to prove the afterlife.
"And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive."
This text was to end the existence of the Sadducees. It is not surprising out find they died out soon after.
Jesus is the first Rabbi in history to find a Biblical text to prove the afterlife.
"And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive."
This text was to end the existence of the Sadducees. It is not surprising out find they died out soon after.
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