"Then some Sadducees arrived. These people claim that there is no resurrection, and they asked JESUS this question, 'Master, in the law Moses told us, 'if anyone dies leaving a wife but no children, his brother must take the wife, and any child born to them will be regarded as the child of the deceased.' Now, there were seven brothers: the first married, but died without children. The second married the woman, but also died childless. And then the third married her, and in the same way all seven died, leaving no children. Last of all the woman died. On the day of the resurrection, to which of them will the woman be a wife? For all seven had her as a wife.'
And JESUS replied, 'Taking a husband or a wife is proper to people of this world, but for those who are considered worthy of the world to come, and of resurrection from the dead, there is no more marriage. Besides, they cannot die, for they are like the angels. They are sons and daughters of GOD, because they are born of the resurrection.
Yes, the dead will be raised, as Moses revealed at the burning bush, when he called the LORD the GOD of Abraham and the GOD of Isaac and the GOD of Jacob. For GOD is GOD of the living, and not of the dead, for to HIM everyone is alive.'" - Luke 20:27-38
(Luke has his own expressions in speaking of the resurrection. It is because in those countries of Greek culture [Luke wrote for them] many people believed in the immortality of the soul as something natural. Luke clarified for them that the other life is not something natural; it is a gift of GOD for those who are considered worthy to enter it.
They too are sons and daughters of GOD. Using a Hebrew expression, the text says: they too are sons of GOD [at that time the sons of GOD were the angels] because they are born of the resurrection. This resurrection is not like coming back to the life we know, it is the work of the Holy Spirit, who transforms and sanctifies those HE resurrects. Therefore the resurrected are sons and daughters of GOD in a much more authentic way than those of this world: delivered from sin, they are reborn of GOD.
To HIM everyone is alive. They started to become alive when GOD knew them and called them, and they will not disappear, since GOD called them from this world to bring them into HIS own.)
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