He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken — the argument: if God defines himself in relation to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob using the present tense, then they must be alive in some meaningful sense from God's perspective. The God who says I am their God cannot be the God of people who simply no longer exist. He is not the God of the dead but of the living — the God of covenant relationship maintains that relationship through death. You are badly mistaken: the Sadducees' rejection of resurrection is not a sophisticated reading of the Pentateuch but a fundamental misreading.

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