Wow!!! The verse reads:
Matt 22:30 In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.
No biological function??? They are
spirits, spirits who can create bodies for themselves at will and sing to shepherds...where do you get no bodily function from this verse??
The verse is about marriage, not bodily functions!! Please consider that the holy and elect angels are espoused to YHWH - a perfect family relationship - as are the elect but sinful humans! That is why the angels don't marry, they are already betrothed and humans would be too if they weren't sinful!
LIKE THE ANGELS means holy and ready to enter the perfect marriage relationship that they were created to have with their GOD!
Who taught you this stuff anyway...
that’s just one biblical view of the after life. It’s in direct contradiction ( depending on how you interpret it and apply it’s intent ) with some other verses. Such as in these verses that mention death, sex and birth in the new heaven and earth.
Isaiah 65:17-25
New American Standard Bible
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;
For behold, I create Jerusalem
for rejoicing
And her people
for gladness.
19 I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people;
And there will no longer be heard in her
The voice of weeping and the sound of crying.
20 No longer will there be in it an infant
who lives only a few days,
Or an old person who does not live out his days;
For the youth will die at the age of a hundred,
And the one who does not reach the age of a hundred
Will be
thought accursed.
21 They will build houses and inhabit
them;
They will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They will not build and another inhabit,
They will not plant and another eat;
For as the lifetime of a tree,
so will bethe days of My people,
And My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor in vain,
Or give birth
to children for disaster;
For they are the descendants of those blessed by the Lord,
And their descendants with them.
24 It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will listen. 25 The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will do no evil or harm on all My holy mountain,” says the Lord.
so a question is how do you harmonize these verses. You can’t harmonize them if you take them literally. If you think they refer to literal histories. But if you realize that it’s highly symbolic language. It’s a metaphorical narrative. Very poetic. Isaiah 65 is about the post exile hope of the Israelites after getting out of Babylonian captivity.
now we take that understanding and use it to interpret the post roman persecution of Christians in the first century.
