Why The Pharisees Believe In The Resurrection Of The Dead

According to the New Testament the Pharisees believed in the resurrection of the dead, but it does not specify whether this resurrection included the flesh or not. The Pharisees maintained an incredible influence among the people for many generations, so that even Herod the Great, was careful not to offend them. He had no regard for their religious teachings but was well aware of the power they had with the people and the threat they posed to the stability of his kingdom if he were to attack them. the Pharisees and Jesus objected to the way the Temple in Jerusalem had become too central to Jewish life when the priests had become a corrupt elite. However, they differed on the solution to the problem. The Pharisees wanted to bring holiness
into the lives of ordinary Jews. One way to do this was to study the Torah in detail, to find all the meaning they could find there. Another way was to eat meals in a state of ritual purity, as the priests did in the Temple. Those are just two examples of Pharisaism. In essence, it was a movement to democratize holiness. It is the ancestor of most of the Judaism in the world today. Jesus took a different approach. He and many Jews at the time believed that God was about to change the whole world dramatically. So, while he mainly followed the same rules as the Pharisees, he attached less importance to them and more importance to opening yourself up to God.