Yeah, I know, I have posts to respond to...but while I was looking up passages for my response on the Heavenly Mother thread, I came across this. I never put these two passages together before:
So marriage is really part of the law for living on earth, and only applies to life on earth. Why else would Jesus give "they can't die" as the reason why people don't get married in heaven?
Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. (Rom 7:1-3)
And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection." (Luke 20:34-36)
And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection." (Luke 20:34-36)
So marriage is really part of the law for living on earth, and only applies to life on earth. Why else would Jesus give "they can't die" as the reason why people don't get married in heaven?
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