“Remember, our Lord placed so much importance on the very literal reading of the tense of a verse, that he rested the doctrine of immortality, of life beyond the grave on this, so that he told the Pharisees: “God says I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Therefore Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are alive with the Lord today, because God is not the God of the dead but of the living.””

— R. J. Rushdoony