Why...?

Well the Bible talks that we will be married to Christ, and that the Church is the bride. So that could be one of the reasons that marriage is no longer used in heaven, because we are considered to be married to Christ.

Marriage is a symbol of God's love for us, and our relationship with Christ. When we are in heaven, we will be enjoying that relationship, we won't need anything to symbolize it anymore. Because we'll get the real experience.

The thing is, heaven is going to be so amazing, and so different from our "expectations" of what it's going to be like, that when you get there, I don't think we're going to care about all these questions we were worried about like things like being married, or getting bored in eternity.

Worry about making sure you -will- be in heaven. Leave the rest in heaven, up to God. We'll be with God, that's all we need. You're looking at it from a human perspective, from your experiences here on earth. The truth is, no one really -knows- what heaven is going to be like, because all we've experienced is this sinful world. We can only guess and speculate.

But know that it will be wonderful. We will be one big giant family in heaven and on the new earth, with God, for eternity.

+1 Spunkn said it all

Chilaha said:

I'm struggling with a concept here. I don't get why God has people get married in this life but there is no marriage in the next.

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Sex/Babies/Election. We will be (Matthew 22:30) like the angels (never die) so there will be no need for reproduction to sustain the human race. Also, the number of those who will eventually be in Heaven(the Elect) is a set number (Romans 11:25), thus the command to "be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:28) will be rescinded.

--David

Chilaha said:

I'm struggling with a concept here. I don't get why God has people get married in this life but there is no marriage in the next. He fills people with the desire to fall in love with someone and then in the end they won't be married forever they are just going to be in heaven and forget about their past marriage and stuff. It doesn't make sense why God gives you stuff and lets you call something or someone as yours but in the end just to take back full ownership? So, I can have kids and they will be mine in this life. But, when they die God is their father. I just see this life as some cruel scheme. Give someone all these amazing things and take them away?

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*God has many of us to marry for having a help-meet, the rearing of children, and meeting our need for love/affection...most importantly
to represent God's relationship with the "church". Don't forget not
everyone is married and neither does everyone have children.
Not too mention the matter of folks who have had more than one
spouse-- the religious leaders posed a question for Jesus about a woman
who had been married multiple times and widowed just as many times.
They wanted to know who's wife would she be when the resurrection
took place?
The religious leaders didn't believe there would be a resurrection and
that's why they asked such a "loaded" question. Jesus told them they were in error and they didn't know the power of God...he also stated:
"At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage;
they will be like the angels in heaven."


Those children are God's not "ours."
We will be known in heaven like we are known here, the children
you have will know that you were their parent(s) here on earth.
Here on earth and in these corrupted suits of flesh, we are
selfish, we claim everything is we have is "ours"...
The Bible reveals everything belongs to God, we have been entrusted
with it and we will answer for how we have treated what's been entrusted
to us.
I believe this is something that Samuel's mother Hannah in the bible
grasped very well and she gave her little son Samuel back to God
when she took him to the Temple just as she said she would if God
would allow her to conceive.
God is the greatest Giver of gifts.
You ain't losing, you win and you win BIG time!

Always wondered how the mormons find a way around that passage.

Anyways Yeh it's like Spun said.

Think our relationship in heaven, will be a thousand times the closeness you may experience for people you really love in your church. Like a brother and sister kind of relationship only completely unconditional and almost infinite.

You'll love everyone else exactly the same level in heaven, so to love one brother or sister above another might detract from your ability to love everyone else infinitely, if I'm making sense.

Presumably there's no need for sex and reproduction in heaven. However I assume there will still be loving relationship between people. So that doesn't mean your husband or wife will become a stranger, just that relationships work somewhat differently there.

Our L_rd will certainly be the focus!

Since families were important to Yahweh all through Scripture, I don't think families are going to stop being families there just all the relationships will be totally different including no problems, hangups or baggage - just Yahweh's kind of love.

To sum it up briefly - marriage is a "picture" or example of the relationship between God and His children, often called the Bride of Christ. Once we're in Heaven, we'll have that innate desire to be united intimately, completely fulfilled by God Himself. We'll still know and love our spouses, but we won't be in a state of earthly, human marriage with them. There'll be no need of it.

For procreation and for the man a helper and a union; a family to grow that increases the fold. Although our society has deteriated in participation this sacred bond and destabilized their understanding of it so now most care little for it's value.


Praise be to GOD the heavenly father and his son lord JESUS CHRIST forever>>>>>>>>>>>>

Chilaha said:

I'm struggling with a concept here. I don't get why God has people get married in this life but there is no marriage in the next. He fills people with the desire to fall in love with someone and then in the end they won't be married forever they are just going to be in heaven and forget about their past marriage and stuff. It doesn't make sense why God gives you stuff and lets you call something or someone as yours but in the end just to take back full ownership? So, I can have kids and they will be mine in this life. But, when they die God is their father. I just see this life as some cruel scheme. Give someone all these amazing things and take them away?

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There WILL be marriage in heaven....to the Lord Jesus himself. Its called the Marriage Feast of the Lamb when all Believers of all the ages are gathered together to have the celebratory meal linking Christ to us...the Groom to the Bride (his church) . Further, there is no need for common marriages outside of this, for, everyone in heaven will be on totally equal footing as far as status goes . Everyone will be one anothers best friend for all of eternity because the old order of things will have passed away making way for new exciting yet different living . Whatever God has in store for us in heaven, will be far better and fulfilling than what earthly marriage could ever offer. And its in this that we place our trust , hope, and expectation.