So he is the God of the living, not the dead. You have made a serious error.”
If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will turn your back on knowledge.
Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God.
‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ So he is the God of the living, not the dead.”
So he is the God of the living, not the dead, for they are all alive to him.”
Christ died and rose again for this very purpose—to be Lord both of the living and of the dead.
That is what the Scriptures mean when God told him, “I have made you the father of many nations.” This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who creates new things out of nothing.
So I was angry with them, and I said, ‘Their hearts always turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.’