Marriage is eternal. We will all be a part of and married to Christ eternally.
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Will people be married in heaven? Angels + Woman Flood
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Marriage is eternal. We will all be a part of and married to Christ eternally.
It is not that you will lose relationships. You will gain them. Everyone else will be your family, too. We will all be one in Christ.
Limitations that we have on this earth that prevent us from being with everyone else will go away.
The unity of the body of Christ i.e. the Bride of Christ will be a oneness by and in the Spirit, on a level that present marriage only simulates.
The gratification of this unity will make physical oneness pale in comparison.
The gratification of this unity will make physical oneness pale in comparison.
All good answers. I would additionally offer that we ser over and over in Scripture a pattern of concentric relational circles. It stands to reason then that in the future there will still be concentric relational circles of several sorts. For example, Hod and Messiah will share a relationship that I may catch the 'glow' of but my relationship with the Messiah will not equal. In that sense, I do think we'll have some closer, by relative measures, relations with those we knew on this side.
It is just a theory, but seems to make sense to me.
It is just a theory, but seems to make sense to me.
I like the preachers who when asked if there will be sex in heaven, always come back with, "It will be better than sex". I'll just observe what the saints and angels are doing and take it from there. 
I think about it like when a kid would ask his parents "When I grow up can I eat all the candy I want?" and the answers are both "Yes" and "Absolutely Not" at the same time.
I am confident I'll have all the sex I want in heaven. What that even means remains to be seen.
I am confident I'll have all the sex I want in heaven. What that even means remains to be seen.
Well, we know that there will be no more pain, so that will be good. We will probably know each other's thoughts and desires, so it will be easy to know what brings the other person pleasure, however and whatever form that may take. God will be our provider, which may be one good reason why there will be no marriage in heaven. We will have glorified bodies, but for some, there will be less glory than for others. I imagine you will want to be one of those who has more glory, having done more to advance the Kingdom. That seems to be the gist of a lot of the parables that Christ told. There will be people who are eternally indebted to you, who might not otherwise be there, were it not for sacrifices that you have made here on earth.
Here is a thought: The believing women who are pregnant when Christ returns, at some point, the child inside will be born. It will be painless, but I can't imagine them remaining pregnant for an eternity, nor having the unborn child simply disappear! I guess we have always assumed that would happen in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, but Scripture doesn't really tell us, other than to say that we ourselves will be changed. It would be like instantaneous development of the unborn child, if that is the case.
That'd be pretty wild, man.
I know, Right! Heaven is going to be SO AWESOME!!!!!
I'm convinced that we will no longer be married when we get to Paradise (Certainly no longer married to a deceased spouse). I also believe this is one of the greatest promises to look forward to!
Mathew 22:23-33
Romans 7:1-3
1 Corinthians 7:39
Mathew 22:23-33
Romans 7:1-3
1 Corinthians 7:39
And that is precisely where the Mormons get it wrong....well, one of many ways, that is. 
You may be anxious to get shed of her/them, but me-not so much.
I have a feeling that a good team down here will be still a good team in the afterlife, we have no idea what we will be doing in Eternity.
Those are nice feelings. But the above scriptures tell of a different reality.
Scripture does give a look to what is waiting for us in paradise:
Some examples:
Judgement Seat of Christ
Marriage Supper of The Lamb
Worship of Christ
Judging of Angels
Reign with Christ
Scripture is full of information on what eternity will look like and what we will be doing... It just does not include us in eternity still married to our earthly wife/wives.
I’m sorry, but your proof texts do not prove your position.
Is it possible that you can leave room for the fact that we don’t need to know everything about the future at this point?
I will certainly leave room and give liberty for folks to believe what they like
God bless.
I suspect Paul knew something about this but wasn't allowed to tell us.
I have some loosely held thoughts on this.
To me, marriage seems synonymous with ownership. It serves the purpose to ensure there is no question of whose seed is produced; who reaps what they have sown. The children belong to the man who planted the seed. His wife belongs to him to plant in so there is no confusion. The man submits to the will of the father and works the thorny ground to bring his women into the same submission (Numbers 30). Because the seed can then be traced back directly through a man it always points back to the first Creator, the importance of the geneology. Utimately the only seed planted in all of us will be the Word, and we will bear fruit accordingly, as all other words/seed will be filtered out by their own wickedness.
When we are resurrected, we don't need to have the order of ownership in place because we will all be in submission to the Father, and only his word will endure.
Jesus was a recognizable male when he was resurrected and when he ascended into heaven. There is no fruit in endlessly dwelling on what bodies we will be ressurected in, but I think we can at least make an assumption that our bodies might be like his, since there were witnesses to a resurrected body.
If it is, then we might not be sexless beings. I don't see any reason why there would not still be sexual union between male and female in heaven. No marriage doesn't mean no sex, it just means no ownership.
Now as a man I have had a tendancy to make an idol of sex, so I don't want to propogate this idea just to hold on to something I like on earth, when there is really something better for us later. But I just want to point out that maybe "marriage" is an earthly necessity but sex is essentially just unity between a man and a woman.
Feel free to poke some holes in my line of thinking to help me grasp this better!
To me, marriage seems synonymous with ownership. It serves the purpose to ensure there is no question of whose seed is produced; who reaps what they have sown. The children belong to the man who planted the seed. His wife belongs to him to plant in so there is no confusion. The man submits to the will of the father and works the thorny ground to bring his women into the same submission (Numbers 30). Because the seed can then be traced back directly through a man it always points back to the first Creator, the importance of the geneology. Utimately the only seed planted in all of us will be the Word, and we will bear fruit accordingly, as all other words/seed will be filtered out by their own wickedness.
When we are resurrected, we don't need to have the order of ownership in place because we will all be in submission to the Father, and only his word will endure.
Jesus was a recognizable male when he was resurrected and when he ascended into heaven. There is no fruit in endlessly dwelling on what bodies we will be ressurected in, but I think we can at least make an assumption that our bodies might be like his, since there were witnesses to a resurrected body.
If it is, then we might not be sexless beings. I don't see any reason why there would not still be sexual union between male and female in heaven. No marriage doesn't mean no sex, it just means no ownership.
Now as a man I have had a tendancy to make an idol of sex, so I don't want to propogate this idea just to hold on to something I like on earth, when there is really something better for us later. But I just want to point out that maybe "marriage" is an earthly necessity but sex is essentially just unity between a man and a woman.
Feel free to poke some holes in my line of thinking to help me grasp this better!
I have no opinion about the second half of your proposition (sex in heaven) but I really like your analogy to sowing and reaping seed on a field that belongs to you.
I will redirect credit for where those initial thoughts come from to the teaching of the Murray tribe. (Their family structure books are being reviewed in that respective corner of these forums). Their foundation for patriarchy leans heavily on natural law which is good since it can be universally understood and its witness is uncorrupted by the thoughts and words of man. Creation's existence is spoken by the creator much as the words that are written in scripture, so creation also has an aspect of infallibility to the extent it is untouched by the fall. Highly recommend.