But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.” Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” For they no longer dared to ask him any question. (Luke 20:37-40 ESV)
As Jesus responds to the Sadducees' silly story, he points out not only how irrelevant their situation was - in the Kingdom marriage would not be needed - so Levirate marriage would be completely outdated; he also gets to the core mistake they made - ridiculing the resurrection. Somehow, in studying every minute detail of the Mosaic Law, they had gotten off to a poor start at the beginning of Moses' call. As God called him He came not as the God of the dead, but of the living Patriarchs. Though Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were long ago dead to man, they were very much alive with God, because the resurrection is real. Jesus shook the very foundation of their rationalism - that seeing something is what makes it real. God is real. Resurrection is real. You better live that way.
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