RE: Do Any Christians Actually Know Anything About the Sadducees and the Pharisees?
September 18, 2015 at 5:49 pm
(September 18, 2015 at 5:17 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I was the kind of kid who got in trouble for asking unanswerable questions of the adults in charge. I once asked a Sunday school teacher who the Sadducees and the Pharisees were. After some meaningless answers about they were hypocrites or bad people, she admitted she really didn't know. (Sorry Mrs. Scneidder and thanks for admitting it). I asked the question again at home and was told no one really knows.
We don't know all that much but we do know more than Jesus didn't like them, or they didn't like Jesus. So if you are Christian or were raised Christian please chime in, and tell me what you know. Yes it's cheating to look them up first.
The Sadducees were Jews who believed in traditional Jewish beliefs. The Pharisees were Jews who had adopted Persian religious beliefs, such as belief in angels, demons, resurrections, devils, ghosts. The Jesus character was essentially a Pharisee since he believed in all of those things. The spin is to make Jesus an Essene, but Essenes are not mentioned in the Bible. Most of the Christian beliefs are a mixture of Greek & Persian.
