(January 30, 2016 at 5:32 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote:(January 30, 2016 at 2:12 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The God character was a spirit in Genesis 1:2 (KJV) = "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
The idea of ghosts go back to Genesis 25:8 (KJV) when the crazy old coot Abraham kicked the bucket: "Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people."
So, since the Sadducees didn't believe in spirits or ghosts did they really believe in the fairy tale or were they atheists? How could they believe in hell?
I wouldn't be deducing the beliefs of the sadducees from the KJV, for one thing, the bible does twist the torah and tanakh quite a lot, and for second KJV was written with the specific ideas of King James vis a vis divine right very much in mind (the KJV is as much a party political tract for monarchical absolutism as it is a religious text, which is why I find it so amusing when roinek yank religious fundamentalists list it as the true bible, they want their guns for keeping King George's armies out of Murrica and they want the bible which says King George should control every aspect of their lives).
Maybe they got their info from the KJV but it says pretty much the same thing.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou...senes.html