Traditional Church dogma reserves the resurrection of the dead to
eternal life for Christians alone and holds out no hope for the Jews
unless they convert to Christianity. Yet more and more frequently
the question arises, “What happens to the Jews who died as
unbelievers in the Holocaust? Will God raise them up from the
dead to life eternal?”
In Judaism, the resurrection of the
dead (Hebrew, techiyat ha’metim) occurs
when the Messiah comes at the
end of time. The position taken by the
Sadducees that there is no resurrection
(Mark 12:18) has no foundation in either
the Old or New Testaments. In fact, Yeshua
(Jesus) taught the exact same thing
as the Pharisees, that there will be a resurrection
of the dead.
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