Well, I guess Jesus didn't say Matthew 22:32 ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ θεὸς Ἀβραὰμ καὶ ὁ θεὸς Ἰσαὰκ καὶ ὁ θεὸς Ἰακώβ; οὐκ ἔστιν [ὁ] θεὸς νεκρῶν ἀλλὰ ζώντων. Notice that he is speaking of God being the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the present tense and then he goes on to say, in application of this Old Testament quote θεὸς νεκρῶν ἀλλὰ ζώντων still present tense, saying that God is the God of the living, not the dead! Hence Jesus Christ is saying that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were alive at that time.
Like I said, one at a time. These subjects are big enough to need a book to explain and back up with scripture, but in a short post, we'll give it a go...
Mat 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
What does that mean? Is Abraham alive and in heaven?
Joh 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
He is not in heaven.
Heb 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
He is not alive. He did not receive the promise of eternal life. He is still dead and awaiting a resurrection...
Heb 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
Heb 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Abraham will be made perfect, given eternal life, receive the promise at the resurrection with the rest of the converted...
Heb 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
Heb 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
So what does Mat 22:32 really mean?
What is the context?
Mat 22:23 The same day came to him the Sadducees,
which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
The Sadducees taught that there was no resurrection from the dead, that the physical life is all there is.
Christ was showing that there will be a resurrection and the saints will be made alive again...
Mat 22:24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Mat 22:25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
Mat 22:26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
Mat 22:27 And last of all the woman died also.
Mat 22:28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
Mat 22:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Mat 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Mat 22:31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
Mat 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
When we read it in context, we see that Christ was showing these Sadducees that there is a resurrection from the dead.
Again, you are a prime example of what happens when scripture is lifted out of context and proof texted.
such an one caught up to the third heaven.