Marriage and Adam and Eve

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If Marriage is over when death occurs, and as Jesus says, there is no marriage in heaven, why were Adam and Eve married? Was the point of marriage different then? Why does marriage split up after death when the original intent was for humanity to live forever with their spouse?

In the New Earth, will we ever be married again?
 
So then marriages were supposed to last forever? When we have our resurrected bodies and are in our New Earth, will there be marriages? And if you say there is no point, then weren’t marriages meant to last forever? If marriage is over at death, and there was no death, shouldn’t marriages then have been forever?
 
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Why does marriage split up after death when the original intent was for humanity to live forever with their spouse?
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The reasons for marriage are
  • to procreate the earth; obviously after death we don’t need to procreate heaven and Jesus said there’s no sexual relations in heaven
  • for the good of the spouses, which means so that the two people don’t have to be alone and they help each other get to heaven; obviously if you both get to heaven then you no longer need help getting there, and you’re no longer alone because you’re joined to everyone else in heaven including everyone else you ever loved.
So there’s no need for an exclusive marital relationship in Heaven.
In the New Earth, will we ever be married again?
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We don’t know what God is planning to do with the New Earth. If he thinks we need to be married again then we will be.
 
The OP asked why marriage splits up after death when the original intent was for humanity to live forever with their spouse.

Obviously Adam and Eve sinning knocked the original intent off track, and they died, and their marriage split up.

If they hadn’t sinned then they would have carried out the original intention, stayed married and lived forever together.
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So then marriages were supposed to last forever?
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Yeah, they were supposed to last forever just like man was not supposed to ever experience bodily death and corruption.

Again - Adam and Eve sinned. That changed the script.

Now we die. And our marriages break up because ain’t no marriage in Heaven (or the other place either).
 
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So your point is that there would be marraige in heaven if we had not sinned? Or that Adam and Eve would have never gone to heaven?
 
If they hadn’t sinned and hadn’t died, then it appears they would have been living indefinitely in the Garden as a living married couple on earth. There is nothing in Scripture that God was planning to take them to Heaven after X years.

If God had wished to do so, we don’t know if he would have taken them up as singles or marrieds, since they would have still been in their incorrupt bodies. But this is speculation since he might not have ever removed them from the Garden.
 
You WILL be with your spouse in heaven. You will NOT be married, but you will be with your spouse, and you will love them even more than you ever did on earth. Many Christians believe that Jesus was talking about marriage, but the question that the Sauducees were presenting were about eternal life, and the after life, not marriage. The Sauducees did NOT believe in the after life & the ressurection.

You will be with your spouse in heaven.

People who say no, are wrong. that is not the Catholic teaching. I suggest you read this article, it further explains what will be in heaven, and what some of the saints have speculated, and what the scriptures mean.


Viva Cristo Rey!
 
It is my understanding that they would have been assumed into heaven at the end of their earthly existence, which would nit have been death.

That, I belief, is the traditional speculation.
 
IAmCatholic said:
If Marriage is over when death occurs, and as Jesus says, there is no marriage in heaven, why were Adam and Eve married?
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I don’t understand the question. Adam and Eve were humans alive on earth. So?
IAmCatholic said:
Was the point of marriage different then?
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No. The purpose of marriage is procreation and unity of spouses.
IAmCatholic said:
Why does marriage split up after death when the original intent was for humanity to live forever with their spouse?
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We don’t procreate after death.

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In the New Earth, will we ever be married again?
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We don’t really know.
 
IAmCatholic said:
So then marriages were supposed to last forever? When we have our resurrected bodies and are in our New Earth, will there be marriages? And if you say there is no point, then weren’t marriages meant to last forever? If marriage is over at death, and there was no death, shouldn’t marriages then have been forever?
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God knows all, so knew that Adam and Eve would fall from the state of original justice, that the supernatural and preternatural gifts would be lost by them.

Mark 12
23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise again, whose wife shall she be of them? For the seven had her to wife. 24 And Jesus answering, saith to them: Do ye not therefore err, because you know not the scriptures nor the power of God? 25 For when they shall rise again from the dead, they shall neither marry, nor be married, but are as the angels in heaven.
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Marriage isn’t supposed to continue forever.
Jesus said there is no marriage in heaven.

see Mark 12:
18 Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, saying, 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. 20 There were seven brothers; the first married and, when he died, left no children; 21 and the second married the widow and died, leaving no children; and the third likewise; 22 none of the seven left children. Last of all the woman herself died. 23 In the resurrection whose wife will she be? For the seven had married her.”

24 Jesus said to them, “Is not this the reason you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God? 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
 
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