RE: Do Any Christians Actually Know Anything About the Sadducees and the Pharisees?
September 20, 2015 at 10:51 am
Without looking anything up... The Sadducees and Pharisees were the high priest ruling class. The Sadducees were in power and had control of the Sanhedrin (majority vote) the differed from the Pharisees in several key points of theology the most distinct being they did not believe in the bodily resurrection after death, and the Pharisees did. Their were a couple other points but I'd have to look them up as I remember they were ceremonial and philosophical.
Durning the destruction of the temple by Rome the reign of the Saducees ended, and so to did "OT Judaism" as they were blamed by Rome for the Jewish rebellion and were all killed on the spot or hunted down and killed. So the version of Judaism we have today has evolved from the Pharisacial doctrinal beliefs.
So why did Jesus not have anything good to say about the either of those groups? Because they used God law for their own personal gain. They were the TV ministers of their day IF our TV ministers could tax everyone, and create laws that oppressed people and made it hard for people to connect to God.
Durning the destruction of the temple by Rome the reign of the Saducees ended, and so to did "OT Judaism" as they were blamed by Rome for the Jewish rebellion and were all killed on the spot or hunted down and killed. So the version of Judaism we have today has evolved from the Pharisacial doctrinal beliefs.
So why did Jesus not have anything good to say about the either of those groups? Because they used God law for their own personal gain. They were the TV ministers of their day IF our TV ministers could tax everyone, and create laws that oppressed people and made it hard for people to connect to God.
