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Will people be married in heaven? Angels + Woman Flood

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Will people be married in heaven?

Someone was telling me that angels mated with woman. And I mentioned that they should look up this section of scripture

34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Luke 20:34-36 KJV

(I think this incident might also be mentioned elsewhere in the 4 gospels)

I think they said they do not think it means that people are not married in heaven.

Do you think I misunderstand this? I would like to see if anyone can show that it would not have to contradict a reasonable interpretation of scripture for people in heaven to be physically married, with physical bodies where they can do things that married people do that unmarried people should not do. Or do most people agree that I understand this correctly? Perhaps, it would be nice to learn if I am wrong about this.
 
I'm not sure if you understand it correctly, because I'm not sure what you think. I think I've figured out what you are saying your friend thinks. Could you please state a bit more clearly what you think?

That passage is very clear that people do not marry in heaven. In context, it also suggests there is no marriage in heaven, ie the marriage someone has now does not continue into heaven, when we are all married to Christ instead. However these are two different things. Some interpret it to mean that people do not marry, but if they are already married they stay married.

Personally, I'm not really concerned what it means. I know that whatever God has in store for me will be far better than anything I could imagine. So I don't bother trying to imagine it.
 
However, I personally doubt that God's going to hand out divorce papers along with the crowns. So whatever it meaqns must be something we haven't figured out.
 
I think we'll probably find that marriage is entirely irrelevant for some reason and find it crazy that we even wondered about this. Because it will be so obvious then - but probably something entirely different to the possibilities we can imagine now.
 
FollowingHim said:
I'm not sure if you understand it correctly, because I'm not sure what you think. I think I've figured out what you are saying your friend thinks. Could you please state a bit more clearly what you think?

That passage is very clear that people do not marry in heaven. In context, it also suggests there is no marriage in heaven, ie the marriage someone has now does not continue into heaven, when we are all married to Christ instead. However these are two different things. Some interpret it to mean that people do not marry, but if they are already married they stay married.

Personally, I'm not really concerned what it means. I know that whatever God has in store for me will be far better than anything I could imagine. So I don't bother trying to imagine it.
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Well I think the passage means people are not physically married to people (other than God) in heaven although they might be spiritually married to God.

But I want to see if anyone can show that my understanding is (or could be) wrong and how. It would be interesting to know if I misunderstand this.
 
I have not researched that topic in depth because if marriage were allowed in heaven then some women would have two husbands....and that would be not what God's patterns are like. So I would side with no marriage in heaven. The original help meet was created to help Adam, and the daughters of eve to help their lords, so I don't see the need for marriage existing in heaven anyway....
 
to me, the simplest answer is;

i have varying levels of friendship and relationship with people on this earth and i am sure heaven will enhance those relationships. wives, children, drinking buddies, etc. will not suddenly become strangers.
(now how did that get in there? i smell a bumbleberry)
 
Marriage is a shadow of the reality of union of Christ and the Church. In Heaven there will be no need of the shadow as we will have the full reality of being united with Christ. In the fact that we are united with Christ we will all be united with each other. Does that make sense?
 
According to Western Christianity, the answer would be no. But according to Eastern Christianity, the answer would be yes. If marriage u look it up, the Eastern Orthodox Church believes that marriage unites a man and a woman in an eternal union before God. However, the procreative bond of marriage ceases at death. They interpret Matthew 22, to be about procreation in Heaven, since the question was about a Yibbum, and the point that the chapter doesn't say anything about being married in Heaven, only about getting married in Heaven. They say that marriage was ordained by God in Genesis 2, and whatever God ordains lasts forever in Ecclesiastes 3:14, in order to seal the deal. Emanuel Swedenborg wrote in defense of eternal marriage.
 
I tend to think we misunderstand what Yeshua said regarding marriage. Clearly, 'marriage', in the procreative sense predated the Fall and Ezekiel 37:24ff indicates sons being born in the a prophesied future kingdom wherein God sets His Temple forever....

There's a whole universe out there to explore, enjoy, populate... were Adam and Eve limited to this planet because of sin and to contain damage? Maybe? Methinks God has a grand future for mankind and we ain't seen nothing yet. What that looks like, I don't know, but expecting something similar to, but better, than current marriage. ...
 
PeteR said:
I tend to think we misunderstand what Yeshua said regarding marriage. Clearly, 'marriage', in the procreative sense predated the Fall and Ezekiel 37:24ff indicates sons being born in the a prophesied future kingdom wherein God sets His Temple forever....

There's a whole universe out there to explore, enjoy, populate... were Adam and Eve limited to this planet because of sin and to contain damage? Maybe? Methinks God has a grand future for mankind and we ain't seen nothing yet. What that looks like, I don't know, but expecting something similar to, but better, than current marriage. ...
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That will make @Shaul soooo happy! He still wants LOTS more children! Lol.
 
It’s not that marriage as we know it is eternal , it’s that Matthew 22 is a little nebulous. The word used for marriage isn’t used anywhere else so we’re not positive about the details. Then the bit of information about being like the angels complicates things a little bit because we know what they did with the daughters of men.
 
The major problem with marriage continuing as we understand it, is how do we apply that to widows who have remarried? Scripture is very clear that widows remarrying is a very good practice that is promoted in various places, so this is God's will. But a widow who has remarried has had at least two husbands.

If marriage is eternal, which one is eternal? Or are both eternal?
If only one is eternal, did God not "ordain" the other one and therefore it doesn't last forever? Which one would be eternal, which is not? Why?
If both are eternal, then she would be polyandrous, which is clearly sinful and adulterous. Does God change the Law by changing the very definition of adultery in the resurrection, to allow her to be with both husbands without sinning?

Marriage being eternal is a nice sounding concept when you're imagining a perfect future where nothing bad happens. But real life, where people do die early and their spouses do remarry, complicates this considerably.

Whatever happens though, it will be the wonderful, perfect solution, as God will be the author of it.
 
sambowers said:
So u believe that marriage is eternal like I do? That is great, that I'm not the only one who believes in it.
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I would lean more toward @FollowingHim 's quote above coupled with @The Revolting Man 's comment.. There is more at play here than traditional Christian dogma, but I'm not fully sure what. I do find it very hard to believe God would encourage two to become one flesh, grow so close, share in a lifetime of sanctifying experiences just to be torn apart at death with some odd new 'friendship ' on the other side of the veil.... still, there are sticky wickets that Yah must have an unrevealed solution for... re:widows....

So, I hold my thoughts on this with an open hand and try not to build firm doctrine where He has not chosen to give answers in the Scriptures.
 
Swedenborg solves the paradox, that u just mentioned, in his book about Heaven. U should read it. He says the same thing that the Orthodox Church says. That those who have true love belong to each other after their death. The Father has taught me a lot, since I'm about to get into seminary so that I can be a Priest. I don't believe in procreation after death. I believe that mankind will return to the Garden of Eden (Revelation 22) and have the same kind of non-procreative marriage as Adam and Eve.
 
"But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him."

I think if we think we know what it will be like, we'll probably be off base in the details. I think maybe Paul was shown a glimpse of it, but wasn't allowed to talk about it. The idea that "It'll be like it is now just perfect and more-so" is an idea that definitely has entered the hearts of man.
 
When I meet up with my mother and father in Heaven, they will still be my mother and father.
When we see our best friends, they will still be our best friends. Our brothers and sisters, same.

Why would a wife suddenly be reassigned a different category? The deep, personal relationship shouldn’t evaporate. Ok, the sex part presumably changes, but all of the shared memories exist. The children from the union are still your shared children.
In some as-yet-to-be-defined form the marriage will still exist.
Widows will just have a slightly more complicated “family”.
 
I studied Swedenborg some years ago. If I remember correctly, even though his teachings were somewhat acceptable, there ended up being something off. Swedenborg is closely associated with Mormonism. I do believe in eternal marriage, but I also believe that a true marriage is only defined by God. A widow may remarry, but who is to say the first or the second marriage was actually a union by God?
 
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