Matthew 22:32 … God of the Living (12/11/16)
“He is God not of the dead, but of the living.”
~ Jesus (Matthew 22:32)
This verse harmonizes with Jesus’ view of God as an internal Here&Now essence (John 14:20) and also Jesus’ view of Heaven as an internal Here&Now experience (Luke 17:20-21) …
Indeed, this particular verse comes in a section of the Scriptures where Jesus is being asked by the Sadducees about the nature of resurrection and whether or not one may marry again in Heaven after death. Importantly, not only does Jesus state quite plainly that neither flesh-bound love (i.e. desirous lust) nor flesh-bound relationships (i.e. marriage) exist in his heavenly Kingdom, but he also notes that focusing on any potential post-mortem existence is false in and of itself – that his Kingdom of Heaven is already within all sentient beings in this lifetime (see Matthew 3:2, Matthew 10:7, Mark 1:15, Luke 10:9-11 et al), and that his heavenly Father — the ruler thereof — is quite logically therefore “a God of those still living, not of those who have already died.”
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