Good morning Pastor John,
I am up reading in God Had a Son Before Mary Did 9 (Going to Jesus.com – God Had A Son Before Mary Did) about the different kinds of life, and something you wrote stopped me. When you explained why the earth became so wicked after the flood — that angels lusted after the beautiful women on earth and abandoned the heavenly bodies with which they were created — it made me think about Matthew 22. I’ve always thought that when we reach our eternal home, we will not be male or female. But Matthew 22 doesn’t actually say that. It only says that in the resurrection there will be no marriage, and that they are like the angels of God. That made me slow down and really read Galatians 3, but that is about us all being one in Christ. It is striking that angels wanted to mate with women when that was not part of their created kind of life. My question is this: Does the Bible say anywhere else that we will not be male or female in heaven?
Matthew 22
- Then Jesus answered and said to them, “You are deceived, knowing neither the scriptures nor the power of God.
- In the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels of God in heaven.
Galatians 3
- There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor freeman, nor male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Beth
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Jesus is the one who revealed that there will be no marriages in the life to come. I assume that means that the glorified bodies God’s saints will receive after the resurrection will be neither male nor female. Spiritually, it is true now that in Christ, there is neither male nor female, as Paul said, but life in the Spirit now is a foretaste, or “earnest”, of what the next life will be like. Paul taught that, too (2Cor, 1:22; 5:5).
Pastor John