It is true that in the days of Jesus the Sadducees still refused to believe in any life after death. Indeed, because Jesus stood for “the resurrection and the life” in opposition to the authorities who stood for the principle of death and darkness, these people were forced to bring the judgment on themselves to bear unjustly upon their accuser, and judge, and attempt to destroy Christ. However, the Pharisees and the great majority of the Jews did actually believe in life after death. They said that in the moment of death the two worlds of time and eternity met and kissed. They said that those who died before God, and they refused to call them the dead but called them the living. When Martha answered Jesus as she did she bore witness to the highest reach of her nation’s
It is true that in the days of Jesus the Sadducees still refused to believe in any life after death. Indeed, because Jesus stood for “the resurrection and the life” in opposition to the authorities who stood for the principle of death and darkness, these people were forced to bring the judgment on themselves to bear unjustly upon their accuser, and judge, and attempt to destroy Christ. However, the Pharisees and the great majority of the Jews did actually believe in life after death. They said that in the moment of death the two worlds of time and eternity met and kissed. They said that those who died before God, and they refused to call them the dead but called them the living. When Martha answered Jesus as she did she bore witness to the highest reach of her nation’s