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In John 11 - Lazarus dies. When Jesus goes to Mary to comfort her about Lazarus living again - she reports the teaching of Jesus that the saints come to life at the 2nd coming.. Paul says 1 Thess 4 that at that event "the dead in Christ rise first"... John says in Rev 20 that it is "the first resurrection".
the Sadducees denied both the resurrection AND the idea of "life-after-death as in the living dead etc" -
Jesus specifically points to "the resurrection" as the point being proven. His explicit doctrine named -- is what people on both sides.. deny most.
Here is the elephant in the living room. The Sadducees railed against the doctrine and Christians today in many cases deny Christ's proof of that doctrine by arguing that even though He said He was proving it -- He did not prove it but rather proved some other doctrine that would totally undermine the point.
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That is KEY to the solution popular today. That Jesus in fact DID NOT prove what He stated He was proving.
Eh, what? The context of the proof that silenced the Sadducee was Christ quoting Ex. 3:6 Moreover he [God] said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
You apparently fell into the PS and went off on Lazarus, which is out of context.
The point remains that God is God of the living (present tense verb), even though their bodies are dead and buried.
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