Here is a fun question for you Christians out there.

A little different than what you are used to also.

Ok, imagine this. You meet a woman (Or a man) and get married. She dies a horrible death, and you mourn for say, a couple of years before you get remarried. Now your other spouse dies too, and then you die. Now all three of you are in heaven. Who are you married to in heaven?

 

In heaven you are not married we are all brothers and sisters in christ and because heaven doesn't include constant nagging :tonuge:

 

lol, wow.

Why do you think marriage continues on after death?

Souls don't "marry"

 

Jesus quote: "The kingdom of heaven lies within." Why are we looking at heaven as a place outside of ourselves when Jesus himself says we need to turn within? Just a thought...

Peace and love

 

Interesting you should say that. If I remember correctly, the marrige "formula" from the bible is something along the lines of "the two became one flesh", which might also be a metaphor for the birth of children.

But yes, according to the NT gospels, a saudecee asked Jesus the same question, and got the "married to no one" reply.

Contemplating on what I think an afterlife (hypothetically assuming there is one, because we don't really know) might be like would be that we would remember our earthly relations, but how we react to them affects our conditional welcoming to the Kingdom. For example, from CS Lewis' mind, in The Great Divorce a woman who died was so focused on finally getting to see her son again who died when he was young was relinquished to the "hell" (Lewis comments that it would probably be for eternity, because of her desires) because her heart was not set on meeting God.

I think Lewis' idea of heaven and hell are really interesting. He even explains purgatory by way of those in "hell" getting out by their own desire to truly be with God, and to take the leap of faith that is required to "harden up" (if you read the book, it makes sense).

 

Death dissolves the marriage bond.

 

But JC said that if you believe in Him you will never taste death........

 

death.
the end of a human life is not true death.

 

George Clooney.

 

i thought the marriage vows were "till death do we part" so after death its all over. So none. But im not christian.

 

Your body and all it's neurochemical needs mean nothing once your dead only energy remains.

All that matters is LOVE. And nothing more. That is where you came from and that is where you are returning.

Hence why you can re-marry here I guess, and hence why it doesn't matter once your dead.