What Jesus said was in response to the Sadducees, a group of antagonistic religious leaders who did not believe in life after death. They asked Jesus a trick question: “If a woman is married and her husband dies, she remarries and it happens again . . . seven times, which of the seven will she be married to in Heaven?” Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God” (Matthew 22:23–30, my paraphrase). He goes on to say God told Moses, whom they claimed to follow, that he is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (who were all dead). Jesus says, God
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