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Mat 22:23-33 the Sadducees try and trap Jesus with counter-resurrection logic and Jesus proves them wrong. As Christians we believe there will be a resurrection
"34 But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. " NASB
34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. KJV
So then just how did Christ "win the argument" in Matthew 22? In that chapter the Pharisees admit that "Jesus put them to silence" -- put the Sadducees to silence meaning that they had nothing to counter-with.... they had no counter argument left to them and thus before all the onlookers they were forced to be "silent" having no answer available.
How is that?
What was the "irrefutable logic" that Christ used that the Sadducees found so silencing??
On this and many other Christian discussion boards you will occasionally find someone who merely "quotes themselves" as if that "proves" something to the opposing side.. and as we all know.. that never does.
Sometimes Jesus would contrast his position by saying "you say this.. but I say something else" -- but that is not the solution given in Matthew 22. In Matthew 22 he points to scripture and essentially says "there look at that we both agree with 'A' and we both agree with 'B' and that means you have a problem".
What exactly was the logic that He used? How did He "put them to silence"
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BTW for the sake of focus for this thread we are talking specifically about this --
Suppose as stated in the text Christ is actually debating the topic of the resurrection of the dead -- the future resurrection of the saints -- and actually did put the Sadducees to silence on that very topic... not some other subject.
Matt 22: And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob"? He is not God of the dead, but of the living."
As someone has already posted
Luke 20:37) Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
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