I appreciate your original thinking, DCP (npub1cxp…exlq), and I once also came up with this interpretation and shared it with another young Christian who seemed to agree, but I have since come to see it differently.
In context, the Saduccees had asked Jesus about whose wife this woman who had been married to seven different brothers would be in the resurrection:
> In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her.” Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.
Matthew 22:28–30 (CSB)
Under your view, I would think Jesus would have said that all of the brothers would be married to her (assuming they all make it to the new world), am I right? Instead, Jesus' answer seems to imply that she wouldn't be married to any of the brothers because there won't be any marriage (perhaps other than that of Christ and His Bride, the Church). And if there is no marriage between the children of the resurrection, I can't imagine there would be fornication or adultery among them either!
Saying that the children of the resurrection will be like the angels of God is interesting and mysterious. I remember in the movie Dogma an angel there was portrayed as having no genitalia. I would think we humans would retain our sex and presumably our organs thereto, but I also note that the Bible always appears to portray angels as looking exclusively like men (and they also don't have wings or look like fat little babies). And they are called the "Sons of God". If there are no female angels there is probably no means or need for angels to reproduce. And they certainly wouldn't be engaged in a big homosexual orgy in heaven!
Anyway, just adding my thoughts to the discussion.
> However, as it is written:
“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love Him”
1 Corinthians 2:9 (NIV)
/ Marakesh đ“…¦
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2024-03-11 05:19:16
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