Wednesday, 6/3/15
The Book of Tobit gives us a charming fictional story from
around 300 b.c.. It purports to tell a store about the Israelites who were assimilated
into Assyria after they were carried off from the northern kingdom in 722 b.c.
Only the Catholics include this story in their Bible.
In the Gospel a group of Sadducees attempted making fun of
Jesus and of his certainty about the afterlife. They made up a story about a
woman who buried seven husbands before dying herself. Laughing up their
sleeves, they ask Jesus if such a woman in heaven would be bed-hopping between
her seven husbands.
In conclusion of his answer to the Sadducees Jesus would bring them to see that they actually did believe in life after death. He did that by
making them realize that in describing themselves as followers of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob they were actually seeing those ancients as not having been rotted
away.
But, before getting around to that, Jesus did give us some rare
facts about the afterlife, and we must thank him for that information. For one
thing, he said the Scriptures can tell us valuable truths about heaven; and he went
on to say that we would live on in heaven without further adding to our
species. We will be like angels.
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