First off let me state that I am not a Christian nor am I by far an expert in Christian Theology. I know what I heaver learned I Sunday School, and a lifetime of fascination with humanity and its religion in general. However, snark aside, I don’t see where my reasoning if wrong.
In God’s glorious and perfection heaven, this is no evil and nothing can be wrong. For those who are saved, and therefore absolved of their earthly sins, heaven is a timeless infinity in the presence of your loved one, provided that they were also saved, and God’s eternal, merciful, and loving spirit,
Love is God’s greatest gift, and it is not only expected but required that we love one another, but the love of spouse is an elevated love, it is a love created by the special bonds that ties you to another person for life. It is expressed by a commitment to that person, and that person alone, forsaking all others. In the traditional Christian view, marriage is a lifetime vow, broken only by death.
Death does however break it, and those who have tragically lost their spouse are not excluded from the matrimonial love, but are allowed to marry again, recommitting their vows ‘until death do them part.’ The dangers of childbirth, no greatly reduced by modern medicine and clean hands, robbed many a family of their mother and many a man of his wife, creating the need for the second wife, the step-mother.
In heaven you are reunited with your loved who preceded you into God’s graces. That means you must be reunited with your previous spouses, whom you did love unto death, and you will be joined by the spouses you left behind when you passed away. In heaven many will live forever in perfect harmonious polyamarous relationships. What is good in heaven cannot be evil on earth. Evil and wrongness have no place in God’s grace, therefore poly relationships built upon love and respect can only mirror God’s will for the afterlife of the just and cannot be considered immoral , unnatural, or sinful, but only a proper expression of his divine plan on earth as it is in heaven.
For the record I am not poly either, but the logic still seems watertight to me.
No body = no sex.
That’s certainly the implication — that we are so changed that it’s not relevant, basically.
Very interesting. Does that mean there is no sexual activity during the after-life? (to be clear I am not trying to criticize or snark, I acknowledge my ignorance of theology and I am genuinely curious)
For the record, no one dared ask him more questions not because of this alone, but this was the latest in a series of “trap” questions; He knocked them all out of the park, and they were afraid to be shown up again.
Jesus addressed this in Luke 20:
The Resurrection and Marriage
(27) Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. (28) “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. (29) Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. (30 )The second (31) and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children. (32) Finally, the woman died too. (33) Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”
(34) Jesus replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. (35) But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, (36) and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection. (37) But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ (38) He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
(39) Some of the teachers of the law responded, “Well said, teacher!” (40) And no one dared to ask him any more questions.
Sounds an awful lot like Mormonism (though it applies to the men only). Frankly, I think the guy who wrote the book of Mormon (the “bible” book, not the Broadway play, though, hey, you never know) was high on something when he wrote that and a good rule of thumb is that if you ever start sounding like a Mormon, you’ve probably missed something.
That said, you forget one thing: a great deal of the Bible are rules for sane, safe living. Why no shellfish or pork? Diseases carried by said protein in the days of no refrigeration. Why no sodomy? Damages the body. Why only one sexual partner at a time? Prevents disease transmission. Why do I bring this up? In the afterlife – you have no body! In fact, it is possible that one does not have a separate consciousness and that, in fact, heaven is the return of the spirit to the collective consciousness – the “We are one” of the Buddhism. There is nothing in the Bible that counters this.