For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. -Acts 23:8

It turns out that even in Biblical times, there were religious scoffers. In this case, they were the Sadducees, and they virtually denied the spiritual realm: though they did—in some vague way—believe in God.

But Jesus reproved them for their foolishness. Here is one instance when the Lord was dealing with them, and was speaking to them on the subject of the afterlife:

And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err. -Mark 12:26-27

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