Thanks for your very thoughtful interaction.🙏🏻😁
Though I appreciate Lewis's brilliance and writings generally, I think he is wrong on this point. "The very letter and spirit of scripture" uniformly celebrate sexuality in its proper context, and that context is bounded by the constraints of the present age. In the Hebrew cultural thinking of the authors of Scripture--including the founders of Christianity--the absence of marital relations in any possible future life would have been unthinkable.
Could my presentation here be misconstrued as some sort of perpetual orgy? Certainly--likely by those with a high time preference--but you are correct about that not at all being my intent. While Lewis's analogy is one of the best attempts ever at defending what has become the "traditional" view, I think it, too, is subject to the same criticism Jesus leveled at the Sadducees.
The core of the "traditional" view is based on the passage repeatedly cited by verita84 (npub1x0r…shtn) , which appears in all three synoptic gospels. We need to recognize what Jesus was berating the Sadducees for in that encounter; they had elevated their own anti-human, Gnostic-like, anti-resurrection tradition above what scripture *actually says* on the topic.
“Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God?" - Mark 12:24
The Sadducees imposed their own legalist, materialist framework on their reading of Scripture. They viewed Torah as eternally binding, rather than as a contingency plan tailored and adapted to a temporal, fallen world.
The whole of Scripture is always greater than the mere sum of its parts, and every detail matters. And while I don't deny that there may be pleasures in the Glory that transcend those sexual, and as much as I enjoy the physical intimacy of marriage, I also still enjoy chocolate.😃
DCP / Duncan Cary Palmer
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