It’s a possibility. After all, our bodies will resurrect. Heaven is a bodily place, or it will be after the second coming. There is no reason to believe that sexuality will be irrelevant in heaven.
Since married people are one flesh, do you believe they have any special relationship in Heaven?
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agapewolf
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Sexuality will never be irrelevant. “Sexuality” is by definition the fact one is a man or woman. The human person isn’t a generic soul that happens to have a male or female body.
What I think you are referring to is the marital embrace itself.
Yes and no. I’m referring to sexuality in general but also the marital embrace. If God created us with the ability to express love in that manner then it could well be a part of our lives in heaven.
Also the fact that we are sexual beings means that it’s an essential part of our human existence so again there’s no reason that sex would not be a part of the afterlife.
I sometimes wonder if, after the resurrection of our bodies and the institution of the “New Earth” we will be restored to the state of Adam and Eve before the fall. If that’s the case then perhaps we will continue procreating into eternity?
Not sure how theologically correct that idea though
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Edward345
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It’s interesting to note that some readings of the Song of Songs have tended to argue for a reversal of the fall, so that the “Return to Eden” in Canticles means the recovery of the pre-fall male-female relationship.Yes and no. I’m referring to sexuality in general but also the marital embrace. If God created us with the ability to express love in that manner then it could well be a part of our lives in heaven.
Also the fact that we are sexual beings means that it’s an essential part of our human existence so again there’s no reason that sex would not be a part of the afterlife.
I sometimes wonder if, after the resurrection of our bodies and the institution of the “New Earth” we will be restored to the state of Adam and Eve before the fall. If that’s the case then perhaps we will continue procreating into eternity?
Not sure how theologically correct that idea though
So what if the Song of Songs also is a return to Eden and if salvation is to restore man and woman back to the creation design which received such a postive affirmation from God? in other words the resurrection means the restoring to the real life of human corporeity, which was subjected to death in its temporal phase, the new creation is, in essence, creation redeemed.
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mdgspencer
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Several people think there will be sex in heaven between people that were married.
However, people now in heaven have no bodies. They will not have bodies until the resurrection (which could be far in the future, in fact).
However, people now in heaven have no bodies. They will not have bodies until the resurrection (which could be far in the future, in fact).
Yes and no. I’m referring to sexuality in general but also the marital embrace. If God created us with the ability to express love in that manner then it could well be a part of our lives in heaven.
Also the fact that we are sexual beings means that it’s an essential part of our human existence so again there’s no reason that sex would not be a part of the afterlife.
I sometimes wonder if, after the resurrection of our bodies and the institution of the “New Earth” we will be restored to the state of Adam and Eve before the fall. If that’s the case then perhaps we will continue procreating into eternity?
Not sure how theologically correct that idea though
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Giggly_Giraffe
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Love and Life in the Divine Plan Family (2011)
Sister Jane Dominic O.P.
"Openness to the mystery of God to lead us away from selfishness. To allow love to be definitive. What good is our marriage vows if they do not cost us anything? In marriage we give what we don’t even have to give- our future. Marriage is the mystery of the limit. God ( who is love ) teaches us the limit. He embraced the limit of our human nature In His incarnetion. limit which had a limit of suffering on the cross to brings with Him into the limitless into the horizon of eternity across the threshold of divine love.
We imitate the way He loves by follow in His footsteps with our wedding vows, “'this one for all my life”. There by in embracing the limit we find entry into the limitless.
Marriage draws us out of ourselves. Those in heaven neither marry nor are given in marriage. This does not mean that your spouse is no longer important to you because it is your spouse who helped you to grow out of that selfish love. Your love was transformed & so in fact you’ll have an even more tender, purified, & deeper love for your spouse. That love will be transformed & taken in most perfectly & completely into Divine Love."
When love seeks to be definitive to the end it embraces the limit. And God himself who is love, he comes to teach us this mystery of loving in the limit. He embraced the limit of our human nature in the incarnation. The limit of suffering on the cross. He was nailed to it died on it. All to bring us with him Into the limitless. Into the horizon of eternity across the threshold of divine love. So we imitate his way of loving we imitate the one who is love … How … By following in his footsteps to embrace the limit into the limitless.
The measure of love is this, the amount of responsibility one takes for the beloved is the measure of love. A husband takes responsibility for his wife, for children; protects & provides. A wife takes responsibility for her husband, her children; nurtures & supports. God takes responsibility for us. He created us. Fell in love with us. Called us to love as he loves. When he turned away he came to suffer & die for us & to redeem us. He continues this work of redemption; this work of love everyday in the Eucharist and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Celebrated from the rise of the sun to it’s setting. He is here right now for us in the Eucharist in all the tabernacles of the world. He will be here for us until the end of time.
Glory be to the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit. As it was in the begging is now & ever shall be world without end. Amen
Sister Jane Dominic O.P.
"Openness to the mystery of God to lead us away from selfishness. To allow love to be definitive. What good is our marriage vows if they do not cost us anything? In marriage we give what we don’t even have to give- our future. Marriage is the mystery of the limit. God ( who is love ) teaches us the limit. He embraced the limit of our human nature In His incarnetion. limit which had a limit of suffering on the cross to brings with Him into the limitless into the horizon of eternity across the threshold of divine love.
We imitate the way He loves by follow in His footsteps with our wedding vows, “'this one for all my life”. There by in embracing the limit we find entry into the limitless.
Marriage draws us out of ourselves. Those in heaven neither marry nor are given in marriage. This does not mean that your spouse is no longer important to you because it is your spouse who helped you to grow out of that selfish love. Your love was transformed & so in fact you’ll have an even more tender, purified, & deeper love for your spouse. That love will be transformed & taken in most perfectly & completely into Divine Love."
When love seeks to be definitive to the end it embraces the limit. And God himself who is love, he comes to teach us this mystery of loving in the limit. He embraced the limit of our human nature in the incarnation. The limit of suffering on the cross. He was nailed to it died on it. All to bring us with him Into the limitless. Into the horizon of eternity across the threshold of divine love. So we imitate his way of loving we imitate the one who is love … How … By following in his footsteps to embrace the limit into the limitless.
The measure of love is this, the amount of responsibility one takes for the beloved is the measure of love. A husband takes responsibility for his wife, for children; protects & provides. A wife takes responsibility for her husband, her children; nurtures & supports. God takes responsibility for us. He created us. Fell in love with us. Called us to love as he loves. When he turned away he came to suffer & die for us & to redeem us. He continues this work of redemption; this work of love everyday in the Eucharist and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Celebrated from the rise of the sun to it’s setting. He is here right now for us in the Eucharist in all the tabernacles of the world. He will be here for us until the end of time.
Glory be to the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit. As it was in the begging is now & ever shall be world without end. Amen
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