For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Jesus met the Sadducees' challenge about the resurrection with this declaration. They argued that if the dead rose in the same bodies with the same earthly desires, husband and wife would reunite and marriage and ordinary life would resume, and that assumption was the ground of their objection to the resurrection.
In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels of God in heaven, so earthly marriage and its relationships do not continue in their present form. This corrects the Sadducees' assumption that resurrection would simply restore earthly life, bodily conditions, and affairs with its frailties and passions unchanged. Their argument rested on a false premise and error in belief that came from not knowing Scripture or God's power.
This holds for the world to come, Paradise, and the new earth, for both those raised from the dead and those translated without dying, who will be like the angels and members of the royal family. The marriage relation instituted in Eden will not continue there. This rules out marriages and births in the new earth, the raising of families through marriage, and being united there with congenial partners or a congenial loved woman to form families through eternity.
The verse does not teach that every person, however corrupt, will be raised to heavenly life and become like the angels. It does not promise universal salvation or remove punishment for sin. The teaching that a man will be joined through eternity to a congenial woman he loves is spiritualism that undermines faith, a seducing spirit and doctrine of devils and a subtle snare of Satan to wean affection away from those who should be loved and cherished now. Those who hold it have departed from the faith and need to be taught the first principles of truth, to break the spell, become humble and teachable, be reconverted, and be adopted again into the family of God.
The verse is a plain declaration about the future life that rules out contrary speculation. Matters God has not revealed are not to be filled in with human theories.
Jesus met the Sadducees' challenge about the resurrection with this declaration. They argued that if the dead rose in the same bodies with the same earthly desires, husband and wife would reunite and marriage and ordinary life would resume, and that assumption was the ground of their objection to the resurrection.
In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels of God in heaven, so earthly marriage and its relationships do not continue in their present form. This corrects the Sadducees' assumption that resurrection would simply restore earthly life, bodily conditions, and affairs with its frailties and passions unchanged. Their argument rested on a false premise and error in belief that came from not knowing Scripture or God's power.
This holds for the world to come, Paradise, and the new earth, for both those raised from the dead and those translated without dying, who will be like the angels and members of the royal family. The marriage relation instituted in Eden will not continue there. This rules out marriages and births in the new earth, the raising of families through marriage, and being united there with congenial partners or a congenial loved woman to form families through eternity.
The verse does not teach that every person, however corrupt, will be raised to heavenly life and become like the angels. It does not promise universal salvation or remove punishment for sin. The teaching that a man will be joined through eternity to a congenial woman he loves is spiritualism that undermines faith, a seducing spirit and doctrine of devils and a subtle snare of Satan to wean affection away from those who should be loved and cherished now. Those who hold it have departed from the faith and need to be taught the first principles of truth, to break the spell, become humble and teachable, be reconverted, and be adopted again into the family of God.
The verse is a plain declaration about the future life that rules out contrary speculation. Matters God has not revealed are not to be filled in with human theories.