Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
Dan 12:1-2 But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—
will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting
life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
After the return from exile by the time of Jesus there were essentially two differing groups of
Jewish sects : the Pharisees and the Saducces
Pharisaic views were non-creedal and non-dogmatic, and heterogeneous. No single tractate
of the key Rabbinic texts, the Mishnah and the Talmud, is devoted to theological issues; these
texts are concerned primarily with interpretations of Jewish law, and anecdotes about the
sages and their values. Only one chapter of the Mishnah deals with theological issues; it
asserts that three kinds of people will have no share in "the world to come:"
• those who deny the resurrection of the dead,
• those who deny the divinity of the Torah, and
• Epicureans who deny divine supervision of human affairs
The Pharisees believed in immortal souls, resurrection and reincarnation. "but that the souls of
good men only are removed into other bodies" and a form of heaven and hell "and that under
the earth there will be rewards or punishments", only good souls can reincarnate "but that the
former shall have power to revive and live again;"
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