Your friend has dissmissed the entire NT as unintelligible trash on numerous occasions.
The point being that both the Sadducees and the Pharisees, not to mention the doctors, lawyers, and scribes, the experts that disputed with Jesus, held the wrong belief about the resurrection of the dead if what Independent believes about the resurrection is true..
Jesus taught exactly what Independent already professes to believe making his denunciation of what Jesus taught pretty funny...
good point-------it is very important to READ BETWEEN the lines when reading the NT-----the version
that "PASSED" the Constantine review is INDEED screwed up. Once one corrects for the obvious
screw up-------it is fine. FACT---the SADDUCEES (roman shills) did dispute the concept of resurrection---
but the PHARISEES did not. FACT--Constantine hated the PHARISEES-----they rebelled against Roman
rule. The Jesus you like------was a Pharisee. For complaints----go to CONSTANTINE. For the record---
I attended lots of SUNDAY SCHOOL-------in a protestant church basement ---as a child