can we marry in the life to come

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Lanolin

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See Revelation 16:6-9

Yep there is a marriage, and those who are pure will be getting married.
 

Sketch

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An interesting theory, but no real support for it.
Jesus seemed to cover the whole marriage thing after the resurrection quite well-from what I've read.
As I pointed out, there is no mention of marriage here. Only procreation. Consider the implications.
In God's creation "animals/plants" can only "produce" after their kind.

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
 

Sketch

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But when people are at the new earth, the New Jerusalem, the final destination of the saints, the former earth shall not be remembered, nor come to mind, for it is associated with sin, and rebellion.
Are you claiming that marriage is sinful?
 

Sketch

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So the saints will not remember anyone, or anything that occurred on earth, so they could be standing next to their spouse from earth, and would not even know it was their spouse on earth.
So... we'll have no idea who we are, where we are, or why we are there?
I think I had an emergency room experience like that. Seemed more like hell than heaven.
Just sayin'...
 

Didymous

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Well they werent exactly clear on what they meant.
Although the Bible is pretty clear. Read your Bible!
The original post seemed clear enough to me. I've read my bible more than enough to recognize error when someone presents it. Maybe it's you who needs to read your bible more.
 

Lanolin

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I gave you the reference. Go look it up. :)
 

Lanolin

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The original post seemed clear enough to me. I've read my bible more than enough to recognize error when someone presents it. Maybe it's you who needs to read your bible more.
Maybe you do! Lol
 

Lanolin

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Read your bible everyday. You cant read your bible 'more than enough' i mean thats just silly. Does everyone just read their bible once then think they know it all?

Hmm, i smell some Pharisees here...
 

Lanolin

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Probably the reason why the OP is asking is because they havent read their bible or not even got to revelation yet, which is the last book of the Bible.

So its not wrong to say read your Bible. Everyone ought to be reading their Bible and searching scripture. Every day.
 

Sketch

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How did you reach that conclusion? Just curious.
On the subject of marriage in Heaven MattForJesus wrote: "But when people are at the new earth, the New Jerusalem, the final destination of the saints, the former earth shall not be remembered, nor come to mind, for it is associated with sin, and rebellion."

The claim was that everything in our former life on earth was "associated with sin", including marriage. (obviously)
 

Didymous

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Read your bible everyday. You cant read your bible 'more than enough' i mean thats just silly. Does everyone just read their bible once then think they know it all?

Hmm, i smell some Pharisees here...
Maybe you smell yourself? You certainly seem to excel in misunderstanding posts in a legalistic manner.
 

RickyZ

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i always wonder when the world is renewed and we become immortal whether those who haven't will be allowed to get married
Matthew 22:23
hat same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him. 24“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. 25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died without having children. So he left his wife to his brother. 26The same thing happened to the second and third brothers, down to the seventh. 27And last of all, the woman died. 28In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? For all of them were married to her.”

29Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angelsb in heaven.

So no, I would not expect to go to weddings in the new world.
 

RickyZ

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Isiah talk about a child leading a lion, so where does the child come from
God loves children, draws them near, says we should be child-like ... On the new earth, we will not age as we do here. We will be at an eternal prime condition that has no age. But seeing God loves children so much, I have to imagine that prime condition will have a lot of the child in it!
 

RickyZ

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Tangental question:

God took a part (rib) from Adam to form Eve. Since heterosexual marriage is a form of making the two into one again, will people who are married here and now become one person then?
 

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On the subject of marriage in Heaven MattForJesus wrote: "But when people are at the new earth, the New Jerusalem, the final destination of the saints, the former earth shall not be remembered, nor come to mind, for it is associated with sin, and rebellion."

The claim was that everything in our former life on earth was "associated with sin", including marriage. (obviously)
& he said we wouldn't even recognize each other or remember anything about our life on earth -- with the implication that our very personhood and identity as individual beings is sinful.

??

i've read a lot of very weird and seemingly misguided things in his posts. so much so that i usually don't even try to get into replying to him. it would be so much work lol -- which is, i guess, a fault, in me. to just pass it over -- am i loving him by ignoring it? so thanks for pointing that out, Sketch :)