If there is no marriage in Heaven, why did God make humans male and female?

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So, something I have been wondering for a while now. When I see people talk about what Heaven will be like on here, it seems that we will all love each other in the same, perfect way and there would be no distinction between the way you love your earthly spouse and some stranger you’ve never even met before Heaven. But, does that not render the built-in complementarity of human beings pointless if marriage or some other distinct way of relating to the opposite sex is not part of our ultimate destiny?

Anyway, if this question sounds dumb, I apologize.
 
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it seems that we will all love each other in the same, perfect way and there would be no distinction between the way you love your earthly spouse and some stranger you’ve never even met before Heaven.
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Well, I’m not too sure about this in the first place. The love between spouses (romantic and sexual aspects of it) and the love we have for our children, family etc are different. I guess you’re referring to the whole ‘marriage reflects heaven’ thing.

The not so developed answer I have is this: the union of male and female reflects God. TOB covers this, and I can’t fully remember it but God created the two sexes for relationship, and this relationship is inherent to the nature of God (look Adam being all alone before Eve; the trinity).
 
God created humankind because He loves us. He wants as many of us as possible to be with Him eternally, and so He made us male and female that we might reproduce and bring about new life that would serve Him.
 
He could have made reproduction possible without two sexes. There are things on that planet that reproduce like that.
 
Perhaps gender will have a different meaning or purpose in heaven.
 
He could have, but He didn’t. Marriage exists for us here on this earth so that we might procreate and help our spouse to get to Heaven too. But, marriage ends at death. Ultimately, we are made to be united with God. You can look at the happiest marriage on earth and it will only be a shadowy glimpse of what our union with God in heaven will be like.
 
Dumb it is not. But GOD knowing in advance what would happen made us in this way.
The male/female complementarity is important for the survival of the species in the imperfect world we live in.
Made imperfect not by GOD but by our sin.
In heaven (after the resureccion of the body) the new Earth, there will be no need to procreate because there will no death.
 
To me it also prefigures the complementarity of the New Covenant. Like the groom and the bride, so is Christ and his Church.
 
I guess the problem I have is that I absolutely adore men because they are so different and distinct from me, familiar enough that they are exotic, otherish in an exciting, not alien-like way. So, I feel sad at the idea of the male-female dynamic giving way to a bland equality.
 
There is supposed to be love on earth. God created Adam and Eve as male and female. God wants us to reproduce so that we can serve him and spend eternal life with him.
 
Like I said, God could have easily allowed human beings to reproduce another way.
 
In heaven every person will be perfectly tuned to praise the greatness of the lord. You will feel a great wonder on seeing each person, like the wonder you now feel on seeing men. Everyone will inspire you and direct your love to God.

Words do not do it justice, not even Dante’s.
 
That’d be more of a downgrade, if anything. Viruses are like the closest things to zombies we have on earth: the grey area being alive and not.

EDIT: Wait a second? Did you just use a prokaryote emoji with that?
 
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There are two sexes because of Adam’s loneliness, because nothing else could overcome that solitude. The way we are is good for reproduction, but it is better for overcoming our loneliness.
 
Is this philosophy, or biology?

As to any and all questions pertaining to God, we will not know in this life, except by direct revelation.

A quick perusal of Genesis reveals part of the reason. I mean, he could have just created heaven and placed us all in there - but it would then lose its value.

Bottom line: He made them male and female because He willed it so.
 
I am not merely asking why God made us male and female. I would have no problem with it if it did not seem like this very fundamental distinction would become irrelevant in the New Creation despite us retaining our sex in our Resurrected forms.
 
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