Sadducees held opinions and beliefs that did not stick with the popular public opinion, as compared with the Pharisees, who held more beliefs in common with the apostles than with the Sadducees.
The Sadducees did not believe that God had a Son. They did not believe in the Holy Spirit. The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. They did not believe that people had immortal souls. They did not believe in sanctions after death (rewards and punishments). The Sadducees had no belief in spirits, angels, or demons of any kind. The Sadducees only held the Torah as the sole form of authority.
While the Sadducaic beliefs are often held as antithetical to Pharisaic beliefs, the beliefs of the apostles and other theologically correct Christians were even more theologically antithetical to the Sadducees.
The apostles believed that God is a Trinity; consisting of the Father, the Messianic Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. The apostles believed that the human soul is immortal. They believed that spirits, angels, and demons exist. The apostles believed that the dead could be resurrected (like Christ was resurrected on the third day). They also believed that people, after death, were either rewarded for their faith and belief in Christ’s payment for sin or punished for their lack of belief in Christ and His payment for sins.
Only two primary beliefs of the apostles and the Sadducees were reconcilable: The belief in God and the belief in the miracles God performed throughout the Hebrew/Israeli history.
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