Acts 23:6

There is a difference between faith and religion. Faith is believing in the person of Jesus and in the salvation that only He can provide. Religion is the ability to follow the rules and regulations that govern your belief in God. This belief system most likely was passed down from your family. 

Faith alone pleases God…we need to know personally, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Jesus Christ is the Messiah and those who place their trust in Him alone… He rewards. 

The Holy Spirit takes the teachings of Christ and makes them live in our spirit. The more that we believe in Him the more we can receive from Him with understanding.

The Sadducees were the ruling religious class in Judaea in the first-century ad. The Pharisees were devoted to the practice and teaching of the law. Faithlife Bible.

The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the dead, miracles, life after death, or the existence of angels. On the other hand, the Pharisees believed in the supernatural and affirmed the very things the Sadducees denied. NKJ Bible.

Following a religion was not as important to God as the people being committed to him (Isaiah 1:13-14). That not is to say that religion is not important to God. But if a persons heart is not in it, then being religious will not impress God. For as God says, a Christian is saved by grace (a free gift given by God because of Jesus) and not by works so no-one can boast (Ephesians 2:8). Christianity.net

Acts 23:6 (NKJV)

⁶ But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

Acts 26:5 (NKJV)

⁵ They knew me from the first, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Acts 28:20 (NKJV)

²⁰ For this reason therefore I have called for you, to see you and speak with you, because for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”