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I’ve read recently that the Orthodox believe that once you are married, it is forever.
*]So, since canonically, the Orthodox will permit up to three marriages as a result of the divine economy, that would mean that if an Orthodox Christian is married to his second or third “wife”, his real wife is actually his first wife, and the subsequent marriages are permitted and tolerated out of mercy so the person doesn’t lead a life of loneliness and sexual depravity.
*]And also, the Orthodox therefore believe that once you are married you are married forever, consequently, when you go to heaven, the woman you “originally” married would be your wife in heaven.
Are these two points correct? I am particularly concerned with the second point, because doesn’t this fly in the face of Christ’s words to the Sadducees, when he said that in heaven “When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.”
Which also begs the question: what if the “original” wife landed in hell? I guess the “heavenly” man would be single for eternity.
Please don’t consider this post of mine to flippant, I’m just trying to understand…