Mark 12:18

Mark 12:18 says, Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,  The Sadducees, who did not believe in the resurrection of the dead came to Jesus asking Him a question in an attempt to discredit Him.   Verse nineteen adds, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.  They started by referencing the Scriptures which contain the Law of God given to Moses.  There are still many people who attempt to get us to question God's law today.  Some say that the Bible really isn't God's word or that it has errors in it.  Even though we may not always fully understand it, we as Christians should never allow anything or anyone to cause us to question the Bible.  They referred to Moses teaching that if a man married and died without an heir that his brother was to marry his widow to give him an heir.  Verse twenty states, Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.  Verse twenty-one adds, And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.  Verse twenty-two continues, And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also. They carried it to the extreme as one after the other of seven brothers married the woman, died without her giving birth to an heir, and then she died. They really didn't care about the unlikelihood of this ever happening but thought it would make it impossible for Jesus to answer their question and still profess the resurrection of the dead. People are still attempting to discredit the Bible today based on half-truths and distortions of what the Bible says because they do not believe or understand what it really says.  Verse twenty-three concludes, In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.  They asked Jesus which of the seven brothers would the woman be the wife of in the resurrection, which they didn't believe in to start with.  Verse twenty-four says, And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?  Jesus asked them if they did not err because they didn't know the Scriptures or the power of God.  Just because someone can quote or reference the Bible doesn't mean that they understand it, and until they accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord, they cannot truly understand the Bible nor know the power of God.  Verse twenty-five adds, For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.  Jesus said that in heaven none would be given in marriage but would be like the angels. Verse twenty-six continues, 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?  Verse twenty-seven concludes, He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.  Jesus then asked that as to the touching of the dead, had the Sadducees not read in the book of Moses, which would be the first five books of the Bible, how God said, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Moses.  Then Jesus said that since God was the God of the living and not the dead, that the Sadducees greatly erred.  God could not be the God of all three at the same time if there was no resurrection from the dead.  Of course, the resurrection that counts above all others is the resurrection of Jesus Christ to bring salvation to all who put their faith in Him as their personal Savior and Lord.