Since married people are one flesh, do you believe they have any special relationship in Heaven?

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If gender will continue to be a significant aspect of our lives in the eschaton, what will be relationships and roles in the new creation?

Matt 22:30 is certainly a difficult passage to understand outside of the traditional reading. Some have suggested that Jesus does not refer to an abolition of marriage but rather a change in how it functions and comes about socially. biblicaltruthseekers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/8-13.-MARRIAGE-IN-THE-KINGDOM-1.pdf

What do you think?
 
I once told one of my sons that I loved him particularly because God had given me the special gift of seeing how special he is, but that God could love everyone that intensely and with that special appreciation all at the same time.

On this earth, we are so limited in our time and energy that our vocation is inevitably to either dedicate ourselves to the particular and intense self-sacrificial love required by family life or else to dedicate ourselves more radically to everyone as an unmarried person who can serve the Lord without distraction.

In heaven, however, we will not be limited by time or energy. We will be able to love all whom God loves radically, in our own miniature way, because we will have been transformed into saints who love with the love of God and without the boundaries earth and concupiscence impose upon us.

That is what I think the Lord means by “at the resurrection they…are like the angels in heaven.” We will not love less, nor will we love impersonally, but rather we will love with the capacity that only the angels now have at their disposal.
 
No.

Consider the marriage vow- it is until death do us part.

The article you linked seemed to ignore marriages subsequent to death other than the levirate example, unless I missed something.
 
Edward345 said:
If gender will continue to be a significant aspect of our lives in the eschaton, what will be relationships and roles in the new creation?

Matt 22:30 is certainly a difficult passage to understand outside of the traditional reading. Some have suggested that Jesus does not refer to an abolition of marriage but rather a change in how it functions and comes about socially. biblicaltruthseekers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/8-13.-MARRIAGE-IN-THE-KINGDOM-1.pdf

What do you think?
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No, we will not be married in heaven. The passage is clear. People error when they start looking for hidden meanings in Jesus’ words instead of just taking them on face value. If he wished to be more ambiguous He could have used a parable. He didn’t. It’s as clear as the bread of life discourse.
 
styrgwillidar said:
No.

Consider the marriage vow- it is until death do us part.

The article you linked seemed to ignore marriages subsequent to death other than the levirate example, unless I missed something.
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Pretty much.

We will be in a continuous ecstasy state with God.

It is impossible for finite humans to even begin to comprehend the “mechanism” by which we will share in God’s INFINITY.

An author, Anthony DeStefano, has written “A Travel Guide to Heaven” in which he collects bible quotations that describe the various descriptions of Heaven.

barnesandnoble.com/w/travel-guide-to-heaven-anthony-destefano/1100291596

The book is worth reading.

youtube.com/watch?v=e1B112wA8Fo
 
Jesus’ answer to the Sadducees that, “at the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage” seems not to apply to marriage in general, but specifically to the subject of Levirate marriage. If we unpack this statement in a Levitcal context, Our Lord is saying no bridal price will be issued as no one will be given in marriage. Heaven will be a perfect world, and no laws of marriage will be needed there either. Jesus made it very clear that in the age to come there will be no laws of marriage, no earthly ceremonies, no contracts being made where the father gets paid to sell his daughter (given in marriage). I think It is the business transaction of marriage, not the relationship of marriage, that Christ is here saying will not exist at that time.
 
**PLEASE do not put words in my mouth.
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At no time have I ever said or suggested that “we become God”. NOR have I said we will be infinite.

God ALONE is INFINITE.

He can choose to share with us whatever He chooses to share.
 
I don’t think we can know for sure either, although we know from Jesus’ words that we will not be married or given in marriage. We will be the Bride of Christ.

Although this verse is not about marriage, I think it shows that not everything is revealed to us: "Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him as He is. (1 John 3:2) (bolding is mine)
 
Monte_RCMS said:
**PLEASE do not put words in my mouth.
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At no time have I ever said or suggested that “we become God”. NOR have I said we will be infinite.

God ALONE is INFINITE.

He can choose to share with us whatever He chooses to share.
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If you replace the word infinity with eternity, it would probably be better…
 
Yes.

It won’t be a special marriage like here on Earth, but you will recognize your spouse and the covenant you made with God.
 
Genesis 2:18: The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”

God has designed us for relationship not only with himself but also with others of our kind. God planned for Adam, and all mankind, to need human companionship. In other words, God made people to need and desire others besides himself. Think of it—God was with Adam in the Garden, yet God said that wasn’t good enough. God designed us to need each other. What we gain from each other is more of God because we’re created in his image and are a conduit for his self-revelation.
 
punisherthunder said:
Yes.

It won’t be a special marriage like here on Earth, but you will recognize your spouse and the covenant you made with God.
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A special marriage? I didn’t know there was that type of subclassification. No one is saying we won’t recognize others.
 
John J. Kilgallen a catholic scholar has held for a long time, there would be “marriage” or the essence of marital relationships in the resurrection: “Though Jesus does not say whose wife the widow will be in the next life, it is reasonable to assume she will be the wife of the first husband, whose life was ended here, but will continue forever (with her) in the resurrected life.”
 
Please do not change my words.

Please do not attempt to interpret my words.

Please do not attempt to create some kind of equivalency with my words.

If God chooses to share His INFINITY with us, that would be His Will.
 
Perhaps "until death do you part " is stated in case the spouses end up in different places:eek:
 
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