God is the God of the living

To point to Jesus, who is the way to our salvation.
Jesus said to the Sadducees, “God is not the God of the dead, but the living” (Mk 12.7). Why such sharp words to address Sadducees? To understand why The Lord Jesus reproaches that they are spiritually dead, we must know the historical background of Israel. Until the 2nd century before Jesus, the Jewish nation was not divided into Pharisees and Sadducees. This did not happen until it began to infiltrate Palestine Greek culture, which was marked not only by the freedom of life but also by various streams of thought that precluded the presence of God in the world. And so, when the Jewish nation met with pagan culture, the leaders of the nation split into groups that felt the danger of paganism: the Pharisees and salvation sought in what the strongest implementation of the law of Moses. At the same time, the Sadducees supported Greece education and disseminated it. Only the richest families of the Jewish nation belonged to them.

They claimed that God did not interfere in any way in the management and maintenance of the world; they did not believe in the existence of angels and denied posthumous retribution. Evangelist Marek in his reminders the Gospel that they do not even believe in the resurrection (cf. Mk 12:18). For that, Jesus tells them that God is the God of the living and refers to the words of God To Moses: “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of James” (Mk 12:26), which the Sadducees recognized.
As Israel encountered the pagan during its historical development
culture, we are also exposed daily to the different views they push into our life pagan thinking. How often faith is promoted in the media in reincarnation of the soul and offers cheap answers to questions of the meaning of life. People are willing to pay hard money to know their future, travel distances to visit various seers, magicians, and healers, who, under the guise of a beautiful future, can snatch them to the last penny. Horoscopes are read because it’s modern to know what they’re telling us stars. And if we have exhausted all possibilities and found no answer, we end our lives by suicide or, at best, on the bed of the ward of psychiatry. On the outside, it seems to be modern life without God. But it’s just a shell of a nice, painted egg, which instead of life hides a rotten one Contents. Man naturally longs for God. And because he is wounded by sin, he needs him even more because only He can heal him. The Sadducees also feel it, of which we have heard today, and therefore come to Jesus with their questions.

They show us where we should come when we feel difficulty or doubts. Jean Guitton, a Catholic philosopher of the 20th century, says that almost all people admit the existence of the Absolute, that is, they believe in God. An atheist who has stopped believing in God thinks he no longer believes in the Absolute, but in reality, he believes in one of the Absolute forms, which is not personal. And this philosopher continues: “Me too I am an atheist when it comes to Nietzsche God, Marx God, Freud’s God. An atheist dancing with joy. An ungodly atheist. If one said Christians that they are atheists would no longer be so afraid to say that they believe in God. ”1 “Our God is the God of the living, not the dead” (Mark 12:27). Jesus gives us hope. It does not leave us in delusion or deception, as many times do magazines or television programs. He gives us confidence because he gives us himself. In a little while, the bread and wine will be transformed into the Body and blood of the Son of God. The same one that tells us that our God is alive. I beg you, Lord, for the gift of living faith, that I may remain faithful to You in my life, in my words, in my own deeds. So that once in the resurrection I believe in and confess, I can hear from you telling me, “Good and faithful servant, you have been faithful over a few, I will set thee over many things: enter into the joy of your Lord ”(Mt 25:23).

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