I'm glad God's override of the youtube algorithm led me to your channel. @2:00 - 2:24 you're presenting a hint of what becomes something immense. The connection is the Sadducees, and more specifically Caiaphas.
This is such a helpful video, thank you! Your comment that, "When we don't think God cares, we idolise money," is spot on, especially in today's Western society where belief in God is diminishing.
That’s because they only considered the five books of the Torah to be binding. The resurrection of the dead idea did not show up until later in the Second Temple period.
This knowledge of the Sadducees I've gotten from this video has made me to understand why they (Sadducees) had to ask Jesus a question about seven brothers who got married to one woman. "At the resurrection whose wife will she be? I simply see it as a question of ridicule or mockery.
The thing that I learnt about daddies was that they were the complete opposite of the pharisees. Also thanks for the video. I would have never completed my homework of it weren't for you. Thank you so much🙏🙌
The best Just great I have a project on the theme of Sadducees And your video is great to write theses And have the first view on the topic of Jewish sects
Doesn’t Christianity also reek of Greek philosophy for example with believing you have a soul after you die (Plato’s idea not in Judiasm) and also the idea of logos that’s introduced in John 1?
The Trinity and the Eucharist. Sadducees were Torah only, vs using the rest of the Tanak. The Torah doesn't mention the soul, but the prophets and psalms are replete with references to people going to sheol.
The ironic thing about that is while the Sadducees were more cosmopolitan politically, they considered themselves the defenders of orthodox Judaism in the face of what they saw as innovations imported from the Persians such as the resurrection.
People who claimed to be the messiah were saying they were the King of Israel. But, all sub-rulers of the Roman Empire were appointed either by the Senate or the emperor. So claiming to be a messiah during the most politically fraught time in the Jewish calendar (Passover) was highly inciteful. And what would happen when a Jerusalem rabble was incited? Roman troops would corner the crowd and hack them to pieces. The Sanhedrin had a very good reason to turn over to Roman authority people who were inciting riots. They were saving people's lives. And crucifixion was a very effective way of making an example of these insurrectionists. Not ony was it an incredibly painful way to die, the bodies were left up until the pieces fell off their crosses. This sent a very clear message. In short, the Sanhedrin was acting to protect the general population when they turned over people who claimed to be the messiah. And, yes, Jesus wasn't the only person who claimed to have been the messiah in those days. There were plenty of them.
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the chart. I know the left side is political, right side religious, upper half Jewish and lower half Greek influence?
Very interesting! But I am wondering what they had prayers and priests for if they didn't believe in a loving God or an afterlife? All for money and power's sake..
Great info! Question though out of curiosity: if they didn’t acknowledge the writings of the prophets, why did Jesus cite Isaiah when He cleared the temple of the money changers?
Great video! I had no clue that the Sadducees rejected such a large portion of the Old Testament. I have an idea for the BT series, what about a breakdown of miracles in the Bible. Maybe: Miracles in the Old Testament, Miracles of Jesus, Miracles of Healing, Miracles of Vision, or Miracles in Exodus. I look forward to your next video, Grace and Peace!
Seduction. It's no surprise they make billions of dollars off the porn industry. The Sadducees and Pharisees of yesterday are the rabbis of today. Both Jesus and John the Baptist took to name calling when addressing them. In modern language they pretty much said "Look everyone, it's the scum of the earth".
We dont need priests anymore. The curtain to the holy of holies was torn top to bottom when Jesus doed for our sins. So we now have access to God because of Jesus. Priests were needed before Jesus, but not anymore.
@@brendabrinkmanpasichnyk3500 we still need consecrated men to be able to have the consecrated bread. Nothing else will satisfy until the beatific vision. And nothing will put an end to this practice short of total annihilation of the human species.
Sadducees seem like they actually had significantly more influence on modern Jews. There are whole sects of Jews and ethnic jews who think God doesn't care, money is important, religion is a bus for money, the resurrection isn't real and a few others are important ideas.
So if I am understanding you, there were far more Pharisees than Sandducees but the Sanhedrin had only 72 of them and that was more heavily Sadducees. Originally I thought all Pharisees and Sadducees were on the Sanhedrin. So today I learned that the Sanhedrin was only a fraction of the total. Am I right?
Overall very good. However - our sources for Jesus' trial before the Sanhedrin are all biased toward exonerating the Romans, who actually crucified Jesus - in other words, the gospels as we have them are more concerned with placating Rome than being fair to the Jews. Let's keep track of who ordered Jesus' death - Pilate, a Roman official. That's the part we can be pretty sure about.
Great job, as usual! It makes me wonder what current day "Sadducees" are powerful enough, rich enough and politically connected enough to the point of swaying the government?
They had 71 and another high priest just in case. The high priest also had a another wife (he wasn’t with her and she had a get) just in case his wife died. Not sure why with the wife one though.
I mean, calling those who represented the aristocratic temple and commercial establishment far-left politically is pretty wild. It is a common claim but the whole thing kinda reeks of presentism. That would surely have been the Zealots, if anything at least. Even religiously speaking, the Sadducees were indeed very orthodox for their time. They did not believe in the resurrection of the dead but did hold onto the earlier conception of Sheol as a traditional underworld. They actually did believe in angels, just not an angelic intermediary form prior to a resurrection. They did not believe in predestination but they did think that God exerted influence on the world which was the point of performing the temple rituals. These differences were rooted in their strict adherence to the Torah alone as binding, though that did not necessarily mean they threw out all of the later writings altogether as is so often assumed.
@@calvinmason1321 yeah, 'wrote' is a poor choice of words on my part. In the DSS we get a glimpse of the life he led in that community. The scrolls do call out the wicked priest, however.
You say they rejected demons but boldly say that Jesus is able to do what he does Due to his demons within But we all know good cannot be associated with evil Everything that comes from God is Good
You made the statement That only Rome had the power to kill Jesus , yet this sect and the others sought to kill Jesus. And I might add to persecute and malign Him. Not very different today.....and that beast is not far from rising again
Please acknowledge that the only information we have in the Sadducees it NOT from their own self description but only from their political opponents the Pharisees. So in Jewish sources it is admitted that this one sided view is most likely flawed.
The greatest exaggeration about them has to be the idea that they rejected most supernatural beliefs rather than just later additions like the resurrection of the dead.
So much B.S. The Tsodokim were the sons of Zadok, the true Priesthood. They rejected the doctrine of the Resurrection and the later books that wrote of it because they knew it was a Persian innovation from the Zoroastrian religion. Nearly everything you said about the Sadducees is incorrect.
Paul was a helenised saduopharisees who went ahead to reject, firsake, void, contradict, blaspheme, transgress and rebel against the law, covenant and testimony of God Lord Yehovah the calling the law old shadow faiding expired ineffective evil and voided and the covenant and testimony old and replaced by human inventions.
The Sect of the Sadducees was the religious backbone of the Pro Hellenist (pro Greek culture) Temple-Centric commercial and political elite of Jerusalem and it's environs connected to commercial interests that depended heavily on foreign trade. Even before the surrender of Judah to Alexander the Great in 332 BCE, the wealthy and political elite of Jerusalem had already taken a keen interest in Greek culture. By the time of the Seleucid hegemony of Judea, more than a few of the Jewish priestly class were quite OK with compromising their duties to Yahweh to pay homage to the gods of Mt. Olympus, ultimately resulting in the sacrifice of a pig to Zeus in Jewish Temple in 156 BCE, resulting in the Maccabean Revolt. Over time, the Pro Hellenist Jews began to integrate their ancient beliefs about the Afterlife with Greek Mythology. For example, the former, ancient, Israelite belief, that the souls of the properly buried dead "sleep" with their corpses in the upper part of an underground cave they called Sheol, morphed into a more Hellenist view--that the fully-conscious souls of the dead separate from their bodies once-and-for-all at death, and travel to a permanent spirit world where the pagan god Hades (brother of Zeus) ruled, by re-naming Upper Sheol "Abraham's Bosom." Further, they changed the former belief of the Israelites that improperly buried souls, having no corpse to anchor to, are doomed to descend and disappear into nothingness into the lower, darker part of the Sheol Cave--the Pit, imagining the conscious souls of the unrighteous are punished, at least for a time, in a lower part of Hades' realm, separated from Abraham's Bosom, only by a chasm. Consequently, like the pagan, Hellenist Greeks, and later Romans, they did not believe the bodies of the dead would ever rise again, as there would be no need for them to! Upon death, one's fully conscious soul travels directly to its deserved destiny, though they also imagined some of the unrighteous could, in time, pay for their sins and, upon completing their sentences, be ferried over the chasm of Lower Hades to Abraham's Bosom. If that sounds familiar, it should, because it was their belief in some form of limited post death retribution that became the basis for the later Catholic belief in Purgatory! Sadly, so many Neo Evangelicals continue to make it seem as if the Sadducees believed only in the existence of this life simply because they denied the need for a bodily resurrection and, of course, for their deep political and financial connections to whatever earthly power was extending its hegemony over Judea, had no interest in an Independent Judea or a Messiah King to come and establish it! For this reason, they joined with the elite representatives of the Pharisees to have Jesus condemned to death, because both sects felt threatened by his followers who believed him to be the Expected Messiah, even though the Pharisees did believe and teach a Messiah was to come, just not someone from the outback of Galilee who repeatedly called them out for their hypocrisies! Rick Lannoye, author of www.amazon.com/Real-Life-Jesus-Nazareth-Really-Stood/dp/B09TPHRY41
Herod and his "Herodian" temple authorities from both the Pharisee and Sadducees were Edomite converts, not a theory look it up. Herod had half the Sanhedrin executed and replaced them with loyalists.. Christ knew everything about it, that is why..
I learned that they believed God was inactive in history and they did what they could to hold their positions of power - even if it went against Israelite beliefs
They more than likely did not believe God was inactive in the world. The whole point of the temple rituals was to attain God’s blessings for themselves, the nation and their progeny in this world. What they definitely did not believe was that there is a predestined plan with a definitive ending.
You make alot of accusations without substatiete your claims about the sadducees = Zadokites. The Sadducees=Zadokites are the sons of Zadok the high priest from the time of David. They were appointed by David to be the priestly family would be in charge of the sanctuary and occupie the office of high priest. They were removed out of office by the Greek king Antioch Apifany around 145 bc, because they have refused to compromise with the helenisation of the Judeans. They left Jerusalem after that and went to the Judean desert at bet habara (qumran, Arabic named) and they built a monastic community of Zadokites priest. Every thing you have heard about the sadducees is a lie told by their enemies to discredit them. If you would like to know what the Sadducees = Zadokites believed in, read the Dead sea scrolls....
_FIRST OF ALL PEOPLE FAIL TO ACCOUNT that the hasmonian replaced the original alphabet and replaced all the original torah written with the old txt. They probably burned & destroyed all the torah with the original txt_ ... Hasmonean revolution was not against greece but against the ruling david line and the zadok religious line..... They actually ended the david line. Replaced the temple priestly levite/zadoks line with the hellenist council sanhedrin (pharisees, saducees, etc, etc).... and Replaced all the torah written in the original text.... etc etc.... *UNLIKE TODAY, THAT EVERY HOME HAVE A BIBLE... THE REPOSITORY OF TORAH WERE AT THE TEMPLE AND SYNAGOGUE ONLY.. SO BURN AND DESTROY THOSE COPIES... WITH A REVOLUTION, REPLACEMENT AND ALL SORTS OF INVASION THAT WENT ON, YOULL HAVE A LOT MORE LIMITED COPIES* .... And exactly why Jesus showed aversion towards the pharisee, scribes, etc... (vipers, muderers, synagogue of satan) "Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Yahudi/Jews and are not, but lie"
I think Hasmoneans did fight the Greek oppression but also, in order to do that, took over the power vacuum by filling out the two positions available: became Basileus (Kings) and high priests to safeguard the Temple. They removed the useless Zadokites and the puppet king. That provoked chaos. However, they successfully managed to create a unified kingdom by, stupidly, getting allied with the Roman Republic. Finally the Romans conquered Judea, put a puppet king and a Saducee High Priest in the power position. The last high priest (I think a Pharisee) dash King was Antigone (his kingly name) Mathai (his priestly Jewish name). Few people know that Antigone Mathai was Jesus' grandfather on his mother's side.
Pompeyo crucified and later beheaded Antigone Mathai and put Herod's father in charge as a "king". He wasn't even a Jew but an Idumean. Probably, a Greek ex slave. Idumeans hated the Hasmoneans because the latter circumcised them by force "converting" them to Judaism. That's why nutty Herod the Great hated them so much.
@@PoloMaldonadoM Nope! THERE WERE NO SADUCEE PHARISEES IN THE TORAH AND TANNAKH, INVENTED BY THE HASMONEAN GREAK PUPPETS.... hahahaha i see that you bought in to the non-canonical entertaining maccabeebian propaganda TO THE VICTORS, POWER TO WRITE HISTORY! .... *_LIKE I SAID! The greeks and hasmoneans actually ended the david line. Replaced the temple priestly levite/zadoks line with the hellenist council sanhedrin (pharisees, saducees, etc, etc)_* .... Out of gratitude the zadoks and the royal line of david sided with the persians while the power hungry opportunistic hasmonean outliers sided with the greeks.... UNFORTUNATELY THE GREEKS WON... SO THE HASMONEANS BACKED UP BY THE GREEKS HAD THEIR WAY.....
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I'm glad God's override of the youtube algorithm led me to your channel. @2:00 - 2:24 you're presenting a hint of what becomes something immense. The connection is the Sadducees, and more specifically Caiaphas.
3:29 - 3:55 drives it home. the priests needed the cover of Rome to further their rule over the people; their lusts for power and money.
5:24 - thanks for including this addition to your video.
We need more videos like this....just finished watching the pharisees. Thanks a lot sir❤
This is such a helpful video, thank you! Your comment that, "When we don't think God cares, we idolise money," is spot on, especially in today's Western society where belief in God is diminishing.
I’ve been on a binge - these videos are filled with so much knowledge
Thanks, this was very informative.
Thanks for the video on the Sadducees. I never could figure out why they were priests if they didn't believe in the resurrection.
No resurrection Job 7:9 KJV Job 14:12 KJV
@@Scott-t2p Daniel 12:2
That’s because they only considered the five books of the Torah to be binding. The resurrection of the dead idea did not show up until later in the Second Temple period.
@@johnweber4577 idea?
Did not realize how little they were concerned with God and the Jewish beliefs
Some Jews don’t trust the prophets because the Torah doesn’t open show what the prophets saw.
They actually were concerned with Jewish beliefs, just not innovations developed later on during the Second Temple period.
Great explain
Love your videos! Very educational!
Nice summary.
This knowledge of the Sadducees I've gotten from this video has made me to understand why they (Sadducees) had to ask Jesus a question about seven brothers who got married to one woman. "At the resurrection whose wife will she be? I simply see it as a question of ridicule or mockery.
Love your videos ❤️. I binge watching all of them
The thing that I learnt about daddies was that they were the complete opposite of the pharisees. Also thanks for the video. I would have never completed my homework of it weren't for you. Thank you so much🙏🙌
So glad you found it helpful! 💪
The best
Just great
I have a project on the theme of Sadducees
And your video is great to write theses
And have the first view on the topic of Jewish sects
Great teaching 👌
That ending was funny indeed 😂
Enjoyed teaching, and love the dad joke!😂
very informative. thank you.
Thanks
The sadducees quite literally reek of Greek philosophy. The fact that they rejected the resurrection of the dead alone confirms this.
Doesn’t Christianity also reek of Greek philosophy for example with believing you have a soul after you die (Plato’s idea not in Judiasm) and also the idea of logos that’s introduced in John 1?
The Trinity and the Eucharist.
Sadducees were Torah only, vs using the rest of the Tanak. The Torah doesn't mention the soul, but the prophets and psalms are replete with references to people going to sheol.
The ironic thing about that is while the Sadducees were more cosmopolitan politically, they considered themselves the defenders of orthodox Judaism in the face of what they saw as innovations imported from the Persians such as the resurrection.
Thanks for this teaching
Good job!!
People who claimed to be the messiah were saying they were the King of Israel. But, all sub-rulers of the Roman Empire were appointed either by the Senate or the emperor. So claiming to be a messiah during the most politically fraught time in the Jewish calendar (Passover) was highly inciteful. And what would happen when a Jerusalem rabble was incited? Roman troops would corner the crowd and hack them to pieces. The Sanhedrin had a very good reason to turn over to Roman authority people who were inciting riots. They were saving people's lives. And crucifixion was a very effective way of making an example of these insurrectionists. Not ony was it an incredibly painful way to die, the bodies were left up until the pieces fell off their crosses. This sent a very clear message. In short, the Sanhedrin was acting to protect the general population when they turned over people who claimed to be the messiah. And, yes, Jesus wasn't the only person who claimed to have been the messiah in those days. There were plenty of them.
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the chart. I know the left side is political, right side religious, upper half Jewish and lower half Greek influence?
Learned so much!
Very interesting! But I am wondering what they had prayers and priests for if they didn't believe in a loving God or an afterlife?
All for money and power's sake..
Great info! Question though out of curiosity: if they didn’t acknowledge the writings of the prophets, why did Jesus cite Isaiah when He cleared the temple of the money changers?
I think Jesus did it more for those watching (the regular people) than for them, but who knows? 🤷♂️
Great video! I had no clue that the Sadducees rejected such a large portion of the Old Testament. I have an idea for the BT series, what about a breakdown of miracles in the Bible. Maybe: Miracles in the Old Testament, Miracles of Jesus, Miracles of Healing, Miracles of Vision, or Miracles in Exodus. I look forward to your next video, Grace and Peace!
That’s a great idea!
He said they rejected the Talmud (oral) not the Torah (old testament).
@@ThespianJ thanks! Grace and peace!
They didn't believe in Jesus...so they were "sad".."you see?". Only way I remember it.
Thanks Stephen!
Seduction. It's no surprise they make billions of dollars off the porn industry. The Sadducees and Pharisees of yesterday are the rabbis of today. Both Jesus and John the Baptist took to name calling when addressing them. In modern language they pretty much said "Look everyone, it's the scum of the earth".
@@donaldbroham3994 How are Sadducees related to rabbi's?
you will be an excellent catholic priest, awesome preaching
We dont need priests anymore. The curtain to the holy of holies was torn top to bottom when Jesus doed for our sins. So we now have access to God because of Jesus. Priests were needed before Jesus, but not anymore.
@@brendabrinkmanpasichnyk3500 we still need consecrated men to be able to have the consecrated bread. Nothing else will satisfy until the beatific vision. And nothing will put an end to this practice short of total annihilation of the human species.
Sadducees seem like they actually had significantly more influence on modern Jews. There are whole sects of Jews and ethnic jews who think God doesn't care, money is important, religion is a bus for money, the resurrection isn't real and a few others are important ideas.
So if I am understanding you, there were far more Pharisees than Sandducees but the Sanhedrin had only 72 of them and that was more heavily Sadducees. Originally I thought all Pharisees and Sadducees were on the Sanhedrin. So today I learned that the Sanhedrin was only a fraction of the total. Am I right?
You are correct!
You missed SCRIBES
Overall very good. However - our sources for Jesus' trial before the Sanhedrin are all biased toward exonerating the Romans, who actually crucified Jesus - in other words, the gospels as we have them are more concerned with placating Rome than being fair to the Jews. Let's keep track of who ordered Jesus' death - Pilate, a Roman official. That's the part we can be pretty sure about.
It enlighten me on sadducee. But are they compared to today's Liberal theologian.??
@@domco_i Dear sir,
Thank you for your prompt reply.
Let's keep track that Pilate saw no wrong in Jesus. It was the Jews who commanded Jesus death and chose to set free the prisoner Barabbas.
Great job, as usual! It makes me wonder what current day "Sadducees" are powerful enough, rich enough and politically connected enough to the point of swaying the government?
Look no further than the Mullahs in Iran. Their president is just a titular head. The ayatollahs control all aspects of life in Islamic Iran.
So why did they only believe the first 5 books of the OT and how could they come to the conclusion that God was not involved in history personally?
They had 71 and another high priest just in case. The high priest also had a another wife (he wasn’t with her and she had a get) just in case his wife died. Not sure why with the wife one though.
Great video! Much appreciated.
I'll be honest, I had been comparing the Sadducees to the modern-day far-Left before I just heard you say they were more like Deists.
I mean, calling those who represented the aristocratic temple and commercial establishment far-left politically is pretty wild. It is a common claim but the whole thing kinda reeks of presentism. That would surely have been the Zealots, if anything at least. Even religiously speaking, the Sadducees were indeed very orthodox for their time. They did not believe in the resurrection of the dead but did hold onto the earlier conception of Sheol as a traditional underworld. They actually did believe in angels, just not an angelic intermediary form prior to a resurrection. They did not believe in predestination but they did think that God exerted influence on the world which was the point of performing the temple rituals. These differences were rooted in their strict adherence to the Torah alone as binding, though that did not necessarily mean they threw out all of the later writings altogether as is so often assumed.
It is good
They didn't like Jesus because they were the 'sons of darkness' according what John the Baptist wrote in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
John the Baptist comes after the Dead Sea Scrolls....an John the Baptist was a Zadokite/Sadduccee by blood
@@calvinmason1321 yeah, 'wrote' is a poor choice of words on my part. In the DSS we get a glimpse of the life he led in that community. The scrolls do call out the wicked priest, however.
72 I the sanhedrin, I wonder where else this number shows up
You say they rejected demons but boldly say that Jesus is able to do what he does
Due to his demons within
But we all know good cannot be associated with evil
Everything that comes from God is Good
Isaiah 45:7 proves your statement to be intellectually inaccurate. Unless you're like the Sadducees and only follow the first few books. Lol
They sound like a rational group as it relates to metaphysics and probably epistemology and logic.
You made the statement That only Rome had the power to kill Jesus , yet this sect and the others sought to kill Jesus. And I might add to persecute and malign Him. Not very different today.....and that beast is not far from rising again
Cain and ABle story fulfilled in Pharisees/Jesus....
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Please acknowledge that the only information we have in the Sadducees it NOT from their own self description but only from their political opponents the Pharisees.
So in Jewish sources it is admitted that this one sided view is most likely flawed.
The greatest exaggeration about them has to be the idea that they rejected most supernatural beliefs rather than just later additions like the resurrection of the dead.
Why don't you say they are Jewish groups ?
They were so sad, you see!!!
So much B.S. The Tsodokim were the sons of Zadok, the true Priesthood. They rejected the doctrine of the Resurrection and the later books that wrote of it because they knew it was a Persian innovation from the Zoroastrian religion.
Nearly everything you said about the Sadducees is incorrect.
Paul was a helenised saduopharisees who went ahead to reject, firsake, void, contradict, blaspheme, transgress and rebel against the law, covenant and testimony of God Lord Yehovah the calling the law old shadow faiding expired ineffective evil and voided and the covenant and testimony old and replaced by human inventions.
The Sect of the Sadducees was the religious backbone of the Pro Hellenist (pro Greek culture) Temple-Centric commercial and political elite of Jerusalem and it's environs connected to commercial interests that depended heavily on foreign trade.
Even before the surrender of Judah to Alexander the Great in 332 BCE, the wealthy and political elite of Jerusalem had already taken a keen interest in Greek culture. By the time of the Seleucid hegemony of Judea, more than a few of the Jewish priestly class were quite OK with compromising their duties to Yahweh to pay homage to the gods of Mt. Olympus, ultimately resulting in the sacrifice of a pig to Zeus in Jewish Temple in 156 BCE, resulting in the Maccabean Revolt.
Over time, the Pro Hellenist Jews began to integrate their ancient beliefs about the Afterlife with Greek Mythology. For example, the former, ancient, Israelite belief, that the souls of the properly buried dead "sleep" with their corpses in the upper part of an underground cave they called Sheol, morphed into a more Hellenist view--that the fully-conscious souls of the dead separate from their bodies once-and-for-all at death, and travel to a permanent spirit world where the pagan god Hades (brother of Zeus) ruled, by re-naming Upper Sheol "Abraham's Bosom."
Further, they changed the former belief of the Israelites that improperly buried souls, having no corpse to anchor to, are doomed to descend and disappear into nothingness into the lower, darker part of the Sheol Cave--the Pit, imagining the conscious souls of the unrighteous are punished, at least for a time, in a lower part of Hades' realm, separated from Abraham's Bosom, only by a chasm.
Consequently, like the pagan, Hellenist Greeks, and later Romans, they did not believe the bodies of the dead would ever rise again, as there would be no need for them to! Upon death, one's fully conscious soul travels directly to its deserved destiny, though they also imagined some of the unrighteous could, in time, pay for their sins and, upon completing their sentences, be ferried over the chasm of Lower Hades to Abraham's Bosom.
If that sounds familiar, it should, because it was their belief in some form of limited post death retribution that became the basis for the later Catholic belief in Purgatory!
Sadly, so many Neo Evangelicals continue to make it seem as if the Sadducees believed only in the existence of this life simply because they denied the need for a bodily resurrection and, of course, for their deep political and financial connections to whatever earthly power was extending its hegemony over Judea, had no interest in an Independent Judea or a Messiah King to come and establish it!
For this reason, they joined with the elite representatives of the Pharisees to have Jesus condemned to death, because both sects felt threatened by his followers who believed him to be the Expected Messiah, even though the Pharisees did believe and teach a Messiah was to come, just not someone from the outback of Galilee who repeatedly called them out for their hypocrisies!
Rick Lannoye, author of www.amazon.com/Real-Life-Jesus-Nazareth-Really-Stood/dp/B09TPHRY41
The Sad-u-see's were as arrogant as the CoE Anglican high church
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Herod and his "Herodian" temple authorities from both the Pharisee and Sadducees were Edomite converts, not a theory look it up. Herod had half the Sanhedrin executed and replaced them with loyalists.. Christ knew everything about it, that is why..
I learned that they believed God was inactive in history and they did what they could to hold their positions of power - even if it went against Israelite beliefs
They more than likely did not believe God was inactive in the world. The whole point of the temple rituals was to attain God’s blessings for themselves, the nation and their progeny in this world. What they definitely did not believe was that there is a predestined plan with a definitive ending.
You make alot of accusations without substatiete your claims about the sadducees = Zadokites.
The Sadducees=Zadokites are the sons of Zadok the high priest from the time of David. They were appointed by David to be the priestly family would be in charge of the sanctuary and occupie the office of high priest.
They were removed out of office by the Greek king Antioch Apifany around 145 bc, because they have refused to compromise with the helenisation of the Judeans.
They left Jerusalem after that and went to the Judean desert at bet habara (qumran, Arabic named) and they built a monastic community of Zadokites priest.
Every thing you have heard about the sadducees is a lie told by their enemies to discredit them.
If you would like to know what the Sadducees = Zadokites believed in, read the Dead sea scrolls....
_FIRST OF ALL PEOPLE FAIL TO ACCOUNT that the hasmonian replaced the original alphabet and replaced all the original torah written with the old txt. They probably burned & destroyed all the torah with the original txt_ ...
Hasmonean revolution was not against greece but against the ruling david line and the zadok religious line..... They actually ended the david line. Replaced the temple priestly levite/zadoks line with the hellenist council sanhedrin (pharisees, saducees, etc, etc).... and Replaced all the torah written in the original text.... etc etc.... *UNLIKE TODAY, THAT EVERY HOME HAVE A BIBLE... THE REPOSITORY OF TORAH WERE AT THE TEMPLE AND SYNAGOGUE ONLY.. SO BURN AND DESTROY THOSE COPIES... WITH A REVOLUTION, REPLACEMENT AND ALL SORTS OF INVASION THAT WENT ON, YOULL HAVE A LOT MORE LIMITED COPIES* .... And exactly why Jesus showed aversion towards the pharisee, scribes, etc... (vipers, muderers, synagogue of satan) "Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Yahudi/Jews and are not, but lie"
I think Hasmoneans did fight the Greek oppression but also, in order to do that, took over the power vacuum by filling out the two positions available: became Basileus (Kings) and high priests to safeguard the Temple. They removed the useless Zadokites and the puppet king. That provoked chaos. However, they successfully managed to create a unified kingdom by, stupidly, getting allied with the Roman Republic. Finally the Romans conquered Judea, put a puppet king and a Saducee High Priest in the power position. The last high priest (I think a Pharisee) dash King was Antigone (his kingly name) Mathai (his priestly Jewish name). Few people know that Antigone Mathai was Jesus' grandfather on his mother's side.
Pompeyo crucified and later beheaded Antigone Mathai and put Herod's father in charge as a "king". He wasn't even a Jew but an Idumean. Probably, a Greek ex slave. Idumeans hated the Hasmoneans because the latter circumcised them by force "converting" them to Judaism. That's why nutty Herod the Great hated them so much.
Herod put in charge several high priests but ended up giving the Saducees the huge brand new renovated Temple.
@@PoloMaldonadoM Nope! THERE WERE NO SADUCEE PHARISEES IN THE TORAH AND TANNAKH, INVENTED BY THE HASMONEAN GREAK PUPPETS.... hahahaha i see that you bought in to the non-canonical entertaining maccabeebian propaganda TO THE VICTORS, POWER TO WRITE HISTORY! .... *_LIKE I SAID! The greeks and hasmoneans actually ended the david line. Replaced the temple priestly levite/zadoks line with the hellenist council sanhedrin (pharisees, saducees, etc, etc)_* ....
Out of gratitude the zadoks and the royal line of david sided with the persians while the power hungry opportunistic hasmonean outliers sided with the greeks.... UNFORTUNATELY THE GREEKS WON... SO THE HASMONEANS BACKED UP BY THE GREEKS HAD THEIR WAY.....
So are you implying that the Bible and scriptures of today are inaccurate and potentially defiled in some way or another?
They were so sad, you see!!!