| In one passage, Jesus said that in the resurrection, we are neither married nor given in marriage, but are as the angels in heaven.Compare that with the statement that we will be known as we are known.Further, if I know my mother as my mother, and my father as my father, will I NOT know them as being husband and wife--which is the ONLY way I have ever known them?Does the resurrection indicate a particular and momentary point/stage/event (i.e., not an eternal state)? Could it be that in the resurrection, we are not married or given in marriage...but that after that (assuming it is a particular event, etc.), we go back to our status of being married, etc.?If marriage is so all-fire important and eternal as some would have us believe, then why is it apparently no longer in effect at some point? It seems to me that the Mormons, with their notion of eternal marriages, are more in alignment with the high value we place on marriage. If we will be known as we are known, consider that there are people who knew me only when I was a child, some only when I was a teenager, others when I was a young adult, and others...you get the idea. If we all happen to meet in eternity at the same heavenly intersection, will I appear to one to be a child (albeit an incredibly handsome and intelligent child), to another as a teenager, etc.?I know that last point is particularly unknowable. We just believe that it will be as the Bible says (even if we don't exactly know what it means). But to me this speaks to whether heaven is objective (i.e., what it looks like to me is what it looks like to you) or subjective (i.e., you may see it one way and I another). If subjective, then we all have a version of heaven--perhaps no less supernatural than an objective one--that is ours alone. |