What religion were the Pharisees?

Answer 1

No, Simon Peter was a fisherman who was called by Jesus Christ to be one of His disciples and later become one of the original 12 apostles.

Answer 2

No he was not. He may have been linked with the Essenes, since John the Baptist was and Jesus was His cousin, and they both detested the Pharisees and everything they stood for and said so in no uncertain words! ANSWER: There is good reason to believe that if Jesus was not a Pharisee, He certainly agreed with much of their doctrines. Over 90 percent of the teachings of Jesus contain parallels in the surviving pharisaic teachings contained in the Talmud. See "Hyam Maccoby" Jesus the Pharisee"

Answer 3

Jewish.

The word "Pharisees," which is based on a Greek misspelling used by Josephus, doesn't convey the meaning which it should. It actually refers to the Sages of the Talmud. (The Hebrew word "p'rushim," to which he referred, means people of temperance; the opposite of epicurean.)

Josephus talks of three groups among the Jews in late Second-Temple times: Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. This may convey the mistaken impression that the Pharisees were just one "sect" among others, when in fact Josephus himself admits that the Pharisees (Torah-sages) with their disciples constituted the large majority of the Jewish people.

Although the Christian Testament portrays them poorly, in fact the Pharisees were very egalitarian. They believed that all men were created in God's image and that all had the same rights, and the same right to an education, etc. They were devoted to the practicing of kindness, the fulfillment of mitzvot, the study and teaching of Torah and the education of all people, regardless of status in society. They detested hypocrisy and actively sought it out and criticized it whenever they encountered it. The Pharisees were the only movement to survive the destruction of the Second Temple and were the ancestors of modern Judaism.

Our traditional Jewish beliefs today, including the afterlife and the resurrection, are traditions continuing from the Prophets and the Sages of the Talmud ("Pharisees").

The Sadducees were men of politics and secular life. They had abandoned various parts of Judaism; and they claimed no earlier source (tradition) for their attitudes. They harassed the Torah-sages; and, like the miniscule breakaway group called the Essenes (see Related Link), disappeared at the time of the Second Destruction, just as the earlier Jewish idolaters had disappeared at the time of the First Destruction.

Note that there is a common conception that the Sadducees, like the later (and now largely defunct) Karaites, made a deliberate decision to reject the Oral Law and reinterpret the Scriptures.

However, a careful perusal of the Talmud reveals that the Sadducees were actually opportunists who had nothing much at all to do with religion in any fashion. They were lax in Judaism; they were men of politics who weren't interested in Torah-matters.

The group that did (on rare occasions) argue with the Torah-Sages concerning subjects of religious observance, were a tiny sect called the Baitusim (Boethusians), who quickly died out.

Answer 4

A very weak relationship as they disagreed with many beliefs . Like Jesus believed any bad soul can become a good soul as for the Pharisees disagree. They believe a bad soul will always stay as a bad souls no matter what.

Answer 5

The Pharisees were a sect within Judaism during the time of Jesus. They were known for their strict adherence to religious laws and traditions, as well as their emphasis on the oral tradition and interpretation of the Torah.

Answer 6

Because of their hypocrisy

Answer 7

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