Infinity and eternity are two totally different things.
I’m uncomfortable with your terminology.
Sorry, but it is not reasonable to assume that at all. The question Jesus was asked was “whose wife will she be at the resurrection?” If there was marriage after death, then all Jesus had to do to silence the Sadducees was say “the first man” and leave it at that. But he didn’t. Instead he says human beings will be like the angels, who do not marry each other.
The case put forward by the Sadducees is particularly extreme. Not only had six brothers attempted and failed to impregnate the woman in question, but she had also outlived them all and was single when she died. It is perhaps this last fact which prompts the question: Whose spouse will she be in the resurrection? …Jesus stresses that in the age to come people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Notice what Jesus does not say. He does not say there will be no marriage in the age to come. The use of the terms “γαμουσιν” (gamousin) and “γαμιζονται” (gamizontai) is important, for these terms refer to the gender-specific roles played in early Jewish society by the man and the woman in the process of getting married. The men, being the initiators of the process in such a strongly patriarchal culture, “marry,” while the women are “given in marriage” by their father or another older family member. Thus Mark has Jesus saying that no new marriages will be initiated in the eschatological [resurrection] state. This is surely not the same as claiming that all existing marriages will disappear in the eschatological state. Jesus, then, would seem to be arguing against a specific view held by the Sadducees about the continuity between this life and the life to come, a view involving the ongoing practice of levirate marriage. In the eschatological state we have resurrected beings who are no longer able to die. Levirate marriage existed precisely because of the reality of death. When death ceases to happen, the rationale for levirate marriage falls to the ground as well. When Jesus says…that people will be like the angels in heaven in the life to come, he does not mean they will live a sexless identity (early Jews did not think angels were sexless in any case; cf. Gen. 6:1–4!), but rather that they will be like angels in that they are unable to die. Thus the question of the Sadducees is inappropriate to the conditions of the eschatological state…In Mark 10 Jesus grounded normal marriage in the creation order, not in the order of the fall, which is the case with levirate marriage (instituted because of death and childlessness and the need to preserve the family name and line). Thus Jesus is intending to deny about the eschatological state “that there will be any natural relation out of which the difficulty of the Sadducees could arise.” Some New Testament scholars put it this way.
Our Lord asked that we be made one as He and the Father are one. That is what the saints in heaven shall be, as the angels are now.
That’s not true at all. We will have relationships with the Saints and Mary and the Angels.
I know we pray to the Holy Family…and if we make it to heaven someday we will be saints too, so another confusing thread for me…are Mary and Joseph still married in heaven?Marriage in the earthly sense as someone stated before has to do with procreation. In heaven, you will probably still love your earthly spouse but there will not be a physical relationship.
Perhaps death do us part means until our spouse joins us or something…
God did not give sexuality in the beginning only for the purpose of procreation.I see no reason why sexual expression of love would not be a reality in the life to come. Even if there are no children in the life to come, reproduction is not the primary reason God gave marriage in the beginning. The primary purpose for marriage was partnership, and that purpose will not be gone in the next life, regardless of whether or not we will still be having children. Therefore, I see no reason why it should not be continued.
Actually, the purpose of marriage is to get each other to heaven, and to bring about Christ’s love for the church here on earth. Marriage is an icon the points us to the reality of heaven.
This is a skewed understanding of sexuality and marriage. It is a product of living in a world that redefines sex and marriage.
We don’t know what our resurrected bodies will be like, save that we will neither marry nor be given in marriage. The perpetual Virginity of Our Lady certainly suggests that sexual relations will not be in any way necessary and may easily have no part at all in the Beatific Vision.