An Introduction to the Gospel of the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
He is not a God of the dead, but of the living.
In Jerusalem, Jesus is represented with the deal of Judaism. The party The Sadducees accepted as the standard of their faith only "law", ie the five books of Moses. Because they found nothing about the resurrection of the dead, they rejected this doctrine from a purely human tradition, in contrast to the Pharisees, Jesus is in this case on the side of the Pharisees. The story they say they want to make Jesus look ridiculous.
But he says them, first, that posed her question on false premises, namely the assumption that the next world is only an extension of the present - a poor idea. The reality is greater: the death will be overcome and the risen Christ be in God's glory and share his life and the biological laws of the contemporary world will be obsolete.
Then he gives the Sadducees a written proof from the Book of Exodus, which also accept them as scripture. Jesus' answer is based not on science but on faith: the God of Abraham is a God of the living, so he gives life. Not from the dead, God is honored, but of the living.
will allow us to offer a definition of the Resurrection: This is not the revival of a corpse. Only those who live for God and to his credit, who really lives, - dead, who does not live for God.
In the world of the resurrection of our lives and the conditions completely new and be different compared with the present world. Our relations will have a different function and are living in a different way.
As for the Resurrection, we will always be with God. Even in this world we are Christians open to the world to come and live in their expectation. In this sense, we already have part in the life of the angels.
is therefore not considered getting married more than the highest good: the conjugal relations are not just made absolute by reason of the Kingdom of God, a person can even dispense with the marriage.
A Christian has a lifestyle that is not based only on this side.
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