Is marriage eternal?

yes and no.

ArmyMatt said:

yes and no.

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Ahhh the classic EO answer

GreekOrthodox said:

Ahhh the classic EO answer

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yep. so yes, something about marriage will continue because the persons continue and therefore those relationships continue. but since it's beyond the fallen carnality, it's nothing like what we know marriage to be.

lawndartboy said:

Is marriage eternal? Ive heard mixed things from EO Christians

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I don't know about the EO, but in the context of Romans 7:1-6 it sort of seems as though marriage (as we have known it anyway) is not eternal.

lawndartboy said:

Is marriage eternal? Ive heard mixed things from EO Christians

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Matthew 22:30
Luke 20:34-36
Mark 12:24-27

I probably seems like it!!!

(Single guy humor)

I like to think marriage will be eternal, but there will neither nagging nor makeup and lipstick on your sink, no honey-do’s or “does my butt look big in these jeans?” nor criticism of my Rush music nor stealing my sheets and covers in the middle of the night nor messing up my cars with lotions and brushes and powders......for the former things have passed away.

Something MUST continue. What that will look like, we don't know.

rusmeister said:

Something MUST continue. What that will look like, we don't know.

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that's kinda like Fr Damascene's point about our being male and female. some distinction will continue, but what exactly we cannot say.

ArmyMatt said:

that's kinda like Fr Damascene's point about our being male and female. some distinction will continue, but what exactly we cannot say.

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I think it might be worth pointing out that, "Till death do us part" ain't Orthodox...

rusmeister said:

I think it might be worth pointing out that, "Till death do us part" ain't Orthodox...

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true story

Is marriage eternal? Bill Clinton is hoping not.

gurneyhalleck1 said:

Is marriage eternal? Bill Clinton is hoping not.

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Laughter through tears.

gurneyhalleck1 said:

Is marriage eternal? Bill Clinton is hoping not.

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that depends on what the definition of "is" is

On judgment day, “I am telling you right now, I did NOT really marry that woman!”

ArmyMatt said:

that depends on what the definition of "is" is

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It's a sacrament. It prefigures the kind of unity Christ has with His own Body, the Church.
But its nothing like the current understanding of marriage as known in this life, more like a family as representing a small church.

What about if someone married more than once?

David Cabrera said:

What about if someone married more than once?

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Marriage as we know it is only for this life. Neither carnality nor procreation will exist in the next life. Church Fathers such as Athenagoras believed Christians should mate with their wives to propagate the species not to satisfy carnal urges. Hence why we say a sister or brother in Christ and never potential lover in Christ.
It's all about whether you helped each other in theosis and foreshadowed the Church Triumphant which continues in the next life. See Ephesians 5:25-32

David Cabrera said:

What about if someone married more than once?

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see Christ's answer to the Sadducees in Matthew 22.