MARK 12:26-27 (Today’s Gspel Reading: Mark 12:18-27)

26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob 27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err. The Sadducees accepted only the Torah; so Jesus nails this one from Exodus 3:6! God didn’t use past tense: I am the God of Abraham, et al. [Origen pointed out in the 2nd century3 that it is ridiculous for God to say that he is the God of men who have no existence!] The patriarchs were alive when those words were spoken: the Torah does, thus, teach that there is life after death! The covenant promises. were eternal (Heb 11:10-13).

Jakarta, 5 June 2024

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