We make mistakes when we assume the future will be just an extension of the present. The Sadducees did not believe in the afterlife because they found inconsistencies (e.g. marriages to many husbands) when projecting to the afterlife. Jesus quoted scriptures, which they believed, to show them their errors.
Lessons
- The future is not necessarily a projection or a continuation of the present.
- The key is to detect any underlying structural change where the old rules do not apply to the new world.
- Figure the new rules that apply in the changed world.e.g. marriages no longer apply in the resurrected world. The marriage of Jesus and the Bride of the Church is a different kind of marriage.
- Cite from accepted Authority to point out the errors of their belief.
- God is the God of the living. Believers are equal to angels, are sons of God, resurrected beings, and cannot die.
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