Do you remember those dreaded...
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Do you remember those dreaded word problems from math class? They always required more thought, because you had to set up the problem in the right way before you could solve it. How much easier were those simple number equations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. See the numbers, follow the signs and solve the problem. Not so with word problems. They made you think, because you had to understand the role of all the quantities involved and you had to place them in the right position in the equations that then needed to be solved.
The Sadducees, trying to trick Jesus, present him with a problem (like the man who met a man with seven wives with seven gazillion other things while going to St. Ives), but themselves come up one symbol short of an equation. They forget to factor in the variance of how eternity is different than temporality. Just like an American dollar sign signifies something different about the numbers following it than does the British pound sign, so too the resurrection qualifies in a substantially different way everything else that comes after it.
The Sadducees, trying to trick Jesus, present him with a problem (like the man who met a man with seven wives with seven gazillion other things while going to St. Ives), but themselves come up one symbol short of an equation. They forget to factor in the variance of how eternity is different than temporality. Just like an American dollar sign signifies something different about the numbers following it than does the British pound sign, so too the resurrection qualifies in a substantially different way everything else that comes after it.
