Sex in Heaven?

[Nihil Obstat]

When I try to read philosophy, I get confused. I'm very practical.

So my question is: If a guy were married three times on earth (a couple of my great uncles were - all wives died natural deaths), who would he have sex with in heaven? Did Jesus say something like "There's no marriage and giving-in-marriage in heaven?"

 

 

In the end, I'll just have to wait to see.

 

Philosophy can be the most practical discipline around, depending on your preferred area.

[PhuturePriest]

 

Philosophy can be the most practical discipline around, depending on your preferred area.

​Pragmatism is, after all, its very own philosophy.

[Edward]

You have no idea once we have resurrected bodies if there will be something similar to sex. Just because there is no marriage does not rule this out. If there is or isn't sex or something similar Heaven will be perfect so I'm not worried. But as I said my fingers are crossed.

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The divine declaration was that it was “not good for the man to be alone” The text reveals that God and the man enjoyed a genuine, interactive relationship in the pristine environment of the garden, but God had created man as a relational being a being with capacity for a relationship with God, as well as a capacity, indeed, need for relationship with others like himself.  This divinely created need for companionship and relationship was part of the original creation to which the new creation returns. Granted, after man’s lapse into sin in the garden, the need for relationship in humanity was seriously marred and deformed. But, did God declare a law of marriage in a perfect world?  There are no such law. There were no laws of marriage imposed on Adam and Eve either. The only laws were “Don’t eat from that tree” and ” Be fruitful, start multiplying”.

They were made man and wife. Again, in a perfect world, no laws of marriage were needed…But, they were commanded to have sex and multiply. This is what made Adam and Eve to be man and wife. She came out of his rib. This made them related. Was this a law or an act of God? What law of marriage was imposed upon Adam and Eve? In the portion of Scripture above, God was silent. Adam did all the talking. Adam was prophesying about  FUTURE relationships (Adam didn’t have a Mom and Dad).God didn’t need a law to make Adam and Eve to be man and wife. Why would you even need laws of marriage in a perfect world? In a perfect world, when God did the pairing, no law was needed. Adam and Eve were made to be man and wife while they were in an immortal state intended to be forever without death. So, did God intend for them to be man and wife forever? In Heaven, will God undo what He originally did in a perfect world? Think about that. In a manner of speaking, will He return Eve back to the rib and stop their relationship which he made and said was good? God will not undo any laws of marriage over Adam and Eve because there never were any to begin with. They will have their bodies and a wonderfully fulfilled loving relationship, though they will no longer be procreating children.Heaven will be a perfect world, and no laws of marriage will be needed there either. Jesus made it very clear that in the age to come there will be no laws of marriage, no earthly ceremonies, no contracts being made where the father gets paid to sell his daughter (given in marriage). Yet, as in the perfect state of union that Adam and Eve had  a relationship God made them to need and to have — in heaven he will not undo what he did in the Garden. A man will know and love his counterpart that God gave him. They will love each other in that relationship for all eternity.

[little2add]

Could it be that existence in heaven is beyond physical needs? 

[Nihil Obstat]

Could it be that existence in heaven is beyond physical needs? 

​Physical needs, obviously. But a physical presence, a physical mode of existence, no.

[MarysLittleFlower]

 

**Disclaimer** Josh did not start this thread.  I created this thread because Josh asked the question regarding sex in heaven which was derailing another person's thread.  

Josh's question is:

What about in Heaven? Not saying one way or the other. Although Jesus did create sex and its good. I've wondered this before but figure it's not something to dwell on.

There's no marriage in Heaven.. only union with God. Marriage is an image of the spiritual reality of Christ and the Church, and God and the soul. That is what we look forward to in Heaven.

There is such joy in knowing God in Heaven and seeing Him (think about how... you'll be able to love Him perfectly and completely there... He would literally mean everything to you)... anything earthly or any earthly pleasure pales in comparison. Even on earth, forms of mystical prayer are way more powerful and intimate (spiritually obviously) than even the most perfect human marriage. It is God that our souls are made for... only in Him we'll find rest. Everything else that He made, - it doesn't compare with His actual presence in the soul at particular stages in the spiritual life, and in Heaven. At first we don't see it that way because of attachments and also because we're going through the Purgative life etc. We just need to seek His Will, not any experiences including spiritual experiences. But our charity in Heaven will be such that the experience of knowing God will be infinitely greater than anything.

[Credo in Deum]