Matthew 22:23–33
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Every generation of Christians faces the temptation to domesticate the faith. We want a tame lion, a reasonable God, a religion that doesn't make our secular neighbors too uncomfortable. We want a faith that fits neatly within the existing intellectual categories of our age. The Sadducees were the masters of this kind of project in their day. They were the theological liberals, the wealthy establishment, the materialists who had made their peace with Rome and had no room in their tidy system for anything so disruptive as a resurrection. It had no room for miracles, angels, or life after death. If you cannot defeat the truth with arguments, then try to defeat it with ridicule. But in this confrontation, Jesus does more than just answer a question. He exposes the two foundational errors that give rise to every heresy, every theological deviation, and every form of proud unbelief that has ever existed.