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Question: What are the differences between Sadducees and Pharisees?
Google: The Pharisees' Judaism is what we practice today, as we can't make sacrifices at the Temple and instead, we worship in synagogues. The Sadducees were the wealthy upper class, who were involved with the priesthood. They completely rejected oral Law, and unlike the Pharisees, their lives revolved around the Temple.
Pharisees emphasized Torah and synagogues, the Sadducees were priests who focused on sacrifices and temple worship.
What did the Sadducees believe in?
According to the Acts of the Apostles, the Sadducees denied the existence or influence of angels. In relation to salvation, only the Temple rituals were of benefit. They denied the resurrection of the dead. They did not believe in the immortality of the soul; there was no afterlife.
What made the Pharisees different?
One of the factors that distinguished the Pharisees from other groups prior to the destruction of the Temple was their belief that all Jews had to observe the purity Laws (which applied to the Temple service) outside the Temple.
What was the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees?
Whereas the priestly Sadducees taught that the written Torah was the only source of revelation, the Pharisees admitted the principle of evolution in the Law: humans must use their reason in interpreting the Torah and applying it to contemporary problems.
Do Sadducees still exist?
Their lives and political authority were so intimately bound up with Temple worship that after Roman legions destroyed the Temple, the Sadducees ceased to exist as a group, and mention of them quickly disappeared from history.
What did Jesus say about the Sadducees?
He said, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God” (Mark 12:24)? Jesus pointed out several dangerous points of ignorance of the Sadducees. In essence, as Jesus pointed out their ignorance step by step, they were exposed as religious fools.
What does Sadducees mean in the Bible?
Definition of Sadducee:
a member of a Jewish party of the intertestamental period consisting of a traditional ruling class of priests and rejecting doctrines not in the Law (such as resurrection, retribution in a future life, and the existence of angels)
What was wrong with the Pharisees?
They were full of greed and self-indulgence. They exhibited themselves as righteous on account of being scrupulous keepers of the Law but were, in fact, not righteous: their mask of righteousness hid a secret inner world of ungodly thoughts and feelings. They were full of wickedness.
Why did the Pharisees believe in resurrection?
The Pharisees stressed a literal resurrection of the physical body, which would be reunited with the spirit of an individual. Their worldview embraced a future restoration of God's original design for his world.
What did Jesus say about the Sadducee's?
He said, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God” (Mark 12:24)? Jesus pointed out several dangerous points of ignorance of the Sadducee's. In essence, as Jesus pointed out their ignorance step by step, they were exposed as religious fools.
The Pharisees are still the Ruling Group in Jewish Religious life. The reason they could not accept Jesus as their Messiah was that Jesus implied that “He and His Father are One” (John10:30)! This statement contradicted their teaching that their awaited Messiah would be human, not Divine! The implied divinity in the Old Testament was/is not taught in current Judaism, as the references have been removed in the Torah over many Centuries of study by their revered Scholars!
They are now locked into their teachings, and will remain so until the events of Zech. 12:10!
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