Do some prefer Hell over Heaven because of this?

The Bible is silent on the whether there will or will not be sex in heaven. We do know that we’ll be in God’s direct, immediate presence as one family, without anything missing, without any suffering.

Consider this brother: when you eat your favorite cookie, is it possible that the cookie could have been improved? Had just a bit more chocolate, or been cooked just a little bit more perfectly? Of course. And there’s no end to this road to perfection: there is always a better, closer-to-perfect mythical cookie out there. Any physical cookie, however close to perfect, is still less than the abstract “model” of the perfect cookie. A physical cookie is just a little window, a pointer, towards cookie perfection. Since God is the source of all things, this perfect, divine cookie only exists within God. He is the thing that all truth, beauty and goodness (including cookies) points toward.

So too is sex a pointer towards the “perfection” of love and intimacy. Sex is a tiny, wonderful and earthly glimpse into the final, perpetual manifestation of union that we’ll share with each other and with God as one unified family. In that state, I’d suspect that we wouldn’t think for even one second about going back to the infinitely inferior earthly versions of sex, or cookies.

Gjestel said:

Because there`s no sex for fun only in heaven? I got the impression also that the devil, lucifer, just pretends to be your friend anyways, he turns his back on everyone

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There is something akin to the feelings you get from having pleasurable sex in heaven, and maybe several things like that there, but they don't come from the physical sexual act, and there is no shame attached to them, etc. But of course, the Devil and his rebellious angels saw what man had and wanted it anyway, but their reasons were not only just for that though, but it was also to take or steal all the dominion that man had, and to try to usurp/take the place of God in the process, etc.

God Bless.

Gjestel said:

Because there`s no sex for fun only in heaven? I got the impression also that the devil, lucifer, just pretends to be your friend anyways, he turns his back on everyone

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If anyone says they prefer hell over heaven because there is no sex for fun in heaven, I would ask them why they believe tere will be sex for fun in hell. The bible's descriptions of hell do not give any suggestion that anything will be "for fun" there.

A lot of people think God as he’s revealed himself is no fun. They think he’s mean & just has a bunch of rules to keep them away from fun. When the Israelites turned to the false gods around them, it wasn’t because they thought they were getting everything they wanted. The other nations offered them things they didn’t think God was offering them, & when they wanted it, plus more. It’s same today. Yes, people will go to hell thinking it’s better then Gods way

Gods way is best

Gjestel said:

Because there`s no sex for fun only in heaven? I got the impression also that the devil, lucifer, just pretends to be your friend anyways, he turns his back on everyone

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When people talk about "choosing hell" it tends to be in a much more subtle way than that.

Imagine a narcissist who lives their entire life choosing themselves over and over and over, the end result of that is hell. Not because one is "sent to hell" for being a narcissist, but because hell is, in a sense, what it looks like to choose oneself--in a very ultimate way.

If God's purpose and will for the universe is to bring all things toward redemption in Christ, and that means the healing and renewal of all creation, the restoration of human beings to perfect communion with God and one another and with the rest of all creation--then what does it look like when a person chooses not that?

Jesus tells a parable of a wedding feast, but the invited guests refuse to come, so the invitation goes out to others who receive proper wedding guest attire, and they all come and enjoy the feast. The parable has a couple layers of meaning, but one of those layers is one is either joining in on the party, or they are not. Those who refuse to come and enjoy the feast, those who choose to remain outside of the party, are there by their own refusale.

If "heaven" is the party, then not joining in on the party is "hell". It's the absence of the feast, the absence of the party, it's absence, lack.

Heaven isn't a party for the "cool people", it's a party for everyone, including all the world's rejects and losers who have been excluded by the "cool people"--it's the "cool people" who choose not to come, so they are left outside, miserable, by their own choice.

C.S. Lewis once put it this way, "It's not that God sends anyone to hell, it's that there is something in us that will become hell unless it is nipped in the bud."

We can compare it to refusing to come to a party. Or we can speak of it as the result of denying our own God-given humanity. In the Apocalypse/Revelation, St. John calls it "the second death". What does it look like to reject life and choose death so completely that it's as though it is a death beyond death? That's the sobering language John uses in the Revelation, a second death, a death beyond death--a sort of total rejection of life.

When all that is lively, good, beautiful, and life-giving is removed--what's left? Almost nothing at all.

Matthew 22:30 "For when the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. In this respect they will be like the angels in heaven."