Many modern liberal doctrines are really nothing new, but merely the latest attempt to water down belief in the Bible by people who don’t know the power of God. One such recycled teaching is that Jesus did not perform miracles such as bring people back to life, and so a resurrection is just mythology. The Sadducees were an ancient Jewish sect that likewise did not believe in a resurrection. Another party to the dispute, the Pharisees did believe in it.
In a classic war of words, the Sadducees tried to deceive Jesus into agreeing with their viewpoint. Their trap was in the form of a classic riddle regarding the resurrection – whose wife would a seven-time widow be? This was their flawed attempt to disprove the resurrection. Just as modern liberals do, they tried to minimize the power of God. How would we answer such people? Would we tell them, “You don’t know the power of God?” That’s what Jesus said.
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