Will There Be Sex in Heaven?

Most of the things I have to talk about are deeper than most people are able or willing to go (some people who don't understand what I'm saying will attack what I'm saying (or me) because they can't make sense of it and aren't calm enough to simply ask and keep asking, "What do you mean?" until they understand what I'm saying), but if I make time today, I'll start posting some of those topics. You can check in from time to time or follow to find them.

I think the husband/wife relationship, and any other relationship such as parent/child, etc. is over after death. Remember Jesus puts spiritual family over biological family.

We ultimately don't know, unless someone goes after God about it. When I look at the Bible and look at my life, I'm inclined to believe that there aren't many mysteries God is unwilling to reveal. The one I'm sure He won't tell anyone (and I'm still not 100% sure) is the exact time of Jesus's return. Basically every other mystery is there for the revealing.

However, not everything God reveals to one person is supposed to be published to everyone else. Psalm 107:3 says, "He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel" (KJV) or "He revealed his character to Moses and his deeds to the people of Israel" (NLT). Someone wrote about this:

"What we see is that God made His ways known to and revealed His character to Moses. In other words, Moses got to actually know God Himself. On the other hand, the people of Israel only saw His acts and deeds- what He did. Israel saw His works, but Moses saw God." (https://www.jimandjanean.com/home/2019/6/2/his-ways-or-his-acts?format=amp)

Most christians, like most Israelis in Moses's time, are content to only know God's acts (ie. to be blessed, experience benefits from God, etc.) and don't want to get any closer to Him. People who want to know God's character, nature, or "ways" go after God for more. When He reveals things to them, some of those things are meant to be shared, but some are not.

"I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven... He was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter" (2Corinthians 12:2‭, ‬4).

I believe God would be more than happy to reveal this mystery about sex in eternity. Afterall, when God hides things-- like Himself or things in the Bible and in Jesus's parables-- His intention is to reveal them. God is intelligent enough to make it so that the things He's unwilling to reveal never even make it into our consciousness (ie. we never even discover their existence). If there are colors, smells, animals in Heaven that we don't know exist, then we can't ask about them. But all the things that exist on earth (or the things we know about), we're allowed and encouraged to ask about and receive answers. If this wasn't true, then only christians would invent, discover, and solve issues. But God reveals earthly things to all people, not just christians. Therefore, He's willing to reveal even more things-- spiritual and secular-- to believers.

I went to Lutheran schools.

As I posted earlier, no one argues more for the possibility of sex, ANY possibility of sex, than a group of hormone-laden teenagers. Especially when they are told no at every turn.

I don't think I ever asked it here because my school experience made it seem like such a been there, bought the T-shirt kind of topic.

My job is to find all the questions I hear talked about but no one cares bring them up, because they will be deemed unfit for Christian conversation.

And yet millions of Christians are suffering in silence, because of the very fact that the very mention of their issue is shot down.

I'm the mole that keeps popping up long after it's been whacked. 😁

I've heard Christians say the main reason for sex is procreation. Since there is no procreation in heaven there is no sex. Does that mean when a couple has a few children, do they stop having sex? I don't think so. Sex is not just about procreation. If sex is just about procreation, wouldn't that make using any contraceptive a sin? In Genesis chap 6 it says "The Sons of GOD saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful. They took for themselves wives. These fallen angels had desires. Angels have desire. In heaven we will eat and drink, so I see no reason for not having sex.

God gave us the Holy Spirit for issues like this. Commentaries can help you think more, but they don't have the ability to give you revelation. Jesus said that satan cannot prevail against a Church that is built on and functions on [the rock of] revelation. (He can prevail on those that aren't. Same principle as the man who built on the rock vs. sand.) Why can't satan prevail against a people founded on God's revelation? Because he doesn't have any holes or cracks: God knows all things, and to a people who depend on and receive from what God knows (which is everything), satan can't enter, break in, deceive, waylay, or influence because they are guarded on every side. I'll leave that there for now, but I brought up revelation because...

God created male and female. Men communicate more often directly, logically, and straightforward while women often communicate more indirectly, emotionally, and metaphorically/figuratively. God distributed His masculine and feminine nature to both parties and naturally would then communicate like both parties. As much as we might hate to realize this, God talks in the Bible more in a feminine communicative way than masculine. It would be nice to read the Bible and think, "What it says is what it means." This couldn't be farther from the truth. God's primary mode of communication is spiritual and figurative (ie. feminine). He gave us the Holy Spirit to interpret much of what He says because we can't understand them without an interpreter. If you suppose it isn't true that God (at least in the Bible) mostly communicates in the 'feminine way', then read this interaction in John 16 between Jesus and His disciples at the end of three years relating and communicating with them:

Jesus said, "I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father."

His disciples responded (in unison, lol), "See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech! Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this we believe that You came forth from God." They couldn't understand all those things Jesus said to them because He usually spoke figuratively (or I'll say in the feminine tense).

Jesus responded, "Do you now believe me?" He then continued, abandoning the use of only plain speech and instead interspersing both plain speech and figurative speech. This is just a fact of life that many would do well to apprehend: God usually speaks in spiritual/figurative (feminine) language which cannot be apprehended like logical (masculine) language can. He does this for many reasons (I won't try to list the few reasons I know) but one reason is to 'force' christians to grow which doesn't happen when everything is easy to do or understand. For this reason, there are few things in the Bible you can look at and say, "Oh, this is 100% this way and that's the end of the story." Not even Jesus's disciples knew He was the Son of God until God delivered it to Peter by revelation. Without God's revelation, we don't know. We just believe. Believing isn't bad; but it isn't nearly as advanced as knowing. At the end of the day, God wants His people to not just believe Him but to know Him. Knowing God and His ways (the way He does things, the way He talks, etc.) takes time just like it takes in any relationship to get to know a person. The more complex a person is, the more patience you need to understand how the person thinks and functions. That's why I asked this question about sex in Heaven... because I don't know the answer, and I'm aware that I don't know the answer. I only believe what I believe until God reveals the truth about it to me. Then I'll know.

God gave us the Holy Spirit for issues like this. Commentaries can help you think more, but they don't have the ability to give you revelation. Jesus said that satan cannot prevail against a Church that is built on and functions on [the rock of] revelation. (He can prevail on those that aren't. Same principle as the man who built on the rock vs. sand.) Why can't satan prevail against a people founded on God's revelation? Because he doesn't have any holes or cracks: God knows all things, and to a people who depend on and receive from what God knows (which is everything), satan can't enter, break in, deceive, waylay, or influence because they are guarded on every side. I'll leave that there for now, but I brought up revelation because...

God created male and female. Men communicate more often directly, logically, and straightforward while women often communicate more indirectly, emotionally, and metaphorically/figuratively. God distributed His masculine and feminine nature to both parties and naturally would then communicate like both parties. As much as we might hate to realize this, God talks in the Bible more in a feminine communicative way than masculine. It would be nice to read the Bible and think, "What it says is what it means." This couldn't be farther from the truth. God's primary mode of communication is spiritual and figurative (ie. feminine). He gave us the Holy Spirit to interpret much of what He says because we can't understand them without an interpreter. If you suppose it isn't true that God (at least in the Bible) mostly communicates in the 'feminine way', then read this interaction in John 16 between Jesus and His disciples at the end of three years relating and communicating with them:

Jesus said, "I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father."

His disciples responded (in unison, lol), "See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech! Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this we believe that You came forth from God." They couldn't understand all those things Jesus said to them because He usually spoke figuratively (or I'll say in the feminine tense).

Jesus responded, "Do you now believe me?" He then continued, abandoning the use of only plain speech and instead interspersing both plain speech and figurative speech. This is just a fact of life that many would do well to apprehend: God usually speaks in spiritual/figurative (feminine) language which cannot be apprehended like logical (masculine) language can. He does this for many reasons (I won't try to list the few reasons I know) but one reason is to 'force' christians to grow which doesn't happen when everything is easy to do or understand. For this reason, there are few things in the Bible you can look at and say, "Oh, this is 100% this way and that's the end of the story." Not even Jesus's disciples knew He was the Son of God until God delivered it to Peter by revelation. Without God's revelation, we don't know. We just believe. Believing isn't bad; but it isn't nearly as advanced as knowing. At the end of the day, God wants His people to not just believe Him but to know Him. Knowing God and His ways (the way He does things, the way He talks, etc.) takes time just like it takes in any relationship to get to know a person. The more complex a person is, the more patience you need to understand how the person thinks and functions. That's why I asked this question about sex in Heaven... because I don't know the answer, and I'm aware that I don't know the answer. I only believe what I believe until God reveals the truth about it to me. Then I'll know.

I've heard Christians say the main reason for sex is procreation. Since there is no procreation in heaven there is no sex. Does that mean when a couple has a few children, do they stop having sex? I don't think so. Sex is not just about procreation. If sex is just about procreation, wouldn't that make using any contraceptive a sin? In Genesis chap 6 it says "The Sons of GOD saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful. They took for themselves wives. These fallen angels had desires. Angels have desire. In heaven we will eat and drink, so I see no reason for not having sex.

I voted No. The way I understand it is, there will not be male or female in heaven. If you don't have the genders then you can't have sex.

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

I think this is talking about equal standing before God. I doubt we will have sex organs or care anything about that. Saying that we will not be male or female in heaven might be going beyond what this text intended.

I've heard Christians say the main reason for sex is procreation. Since there is no procreation in heaven there is no sex. Does that mean when a couple has a few children, do they stop having sex? I don't think so. Sex is not just about procreation. If sex is just about procreation, wouldn't that make using any contraceptive a sin? In Genesis chap 6 it says "The Sons of GOD saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful. They took for themselves wives. These fallen angels had desires. Angels have desire. In heaven we will eat and drink, so I see no reason for not having sex.

The reasons for eating and drinking in heaven are not to quench hunger and thirst, but so we participate in fellowship with other believers (such as the feast). I doubt there will be need to quench hunger or thirst in heaven. Sex is not an activity that one can conduct with a group of believers; I doubt sex is even a fellowship activity. If God has removed hunger and thirst, it may be possible that He also removed lust.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. Genesis 6:4. Interesting angels were able to have sex and had desires. Angels can take human form.

"for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.".....Luke 20:36.

we know the issue will be settled once we are in heaven. I do hope there is sex in heaven. From what I read about the sons of GOD, there is hope.

I can see us still somehow having families.

I've heard Christians say the main reason for sex is procreation. Since there is no procreation in heaven there is no sex. Does that mean when a couple has a few children, do they stop having sex? I don't think so. Sex is not just about procreation. If sex is just about procreation, wouldn't that make using any contraceptive a sin? In Genesis chap 6 it says "The Sons of GOD saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful. They took for themselves wives. These fallen angels had desires. Angels have desire. In heaven we will eat and drink, so I see no reason for not having sex.

You're being redundant, and repeating yourself, and saying the same thing over and over.

And translating "sons of God" to "angels" is questionable at best. I know some people prefer to believe they were angels, but God never called an angel His son.

But whether they were angels or not... Do you have any other points to make? Or are you just going to keep hammering on this one?

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. Genesis 6:4. Interesting angels were able to have sex and had desires. Angels can take human form.