Here is an important question to consider: Why not forever marriage in heaven? Why does it seem so offensive to many?
Think about it. We make close, intimate ties on earth with our spouses—okay, some of us do. Nevertheless, does it make sense that God would take two loving, intimate spouses, then tear them apart to live singly for eternity just because they died? That would be akin to some kind of hell, I would think—a hell in heaven!
Michael Martin Murphy put it this way, “And if love never lasts forever, tell me what’s forever for?” Or to put it another way, “And if marriage doesn’t lasts forever, what’s marriage for?”
Didn’t Jesus tell us to love our neighbors as ourselves? For what purpose? Just to have that love disappear when we die and go to heaven? Are we to lose all sensibilities towards our spouses, children and friends when we die and go to heaven? Modern thinking would have us believe so, although I don’t believe most Christians in the trench, so to speak, believe this is true.
If this were true, heaven would be a very lonely and hellish place. Remember, heaven is for eternity! And so are our emotions!
What better way to preserve these God-given feelings for one another than to continue the institution of marriage and family that God created on earth? Of course, in my view, the pattern God used to establish marriage on earth was taken from heaven itself, starting with he himself and our Mother in heaven.
In spite of all that has been said, the idea of a Mother in heaven is still conjecture, so far as the Bible is concerned. Yet, there is a good deal of circumstantial evidence to suggest that there is, indeed, a heavenly Mother.
The question may then be asked: If there is a Mother in heaven, why don’t we hear about her? And it’s a good question.
Perhaps it’s because it’s not necessary for our salvation and eternal life, which is in Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is to spare her from the filthy mouths of vulgar people who routinely use the name of God and his Christ at the ends of their profane tongues.
And so there you have it.
Regardless of what has been presented here, the reader still must decide for him- or herself if having a Mother in heaven is something he or she can wrap their minds and hearts around.
In the end, it doesn’t really matter. As one reader suggested, we will find out sooner or later when this life is over and we have all gone to heaven . . . assuming that all will go to heaven.
Cris,
I am really embrassed! Somehow when I jumpted into your site I got in the middle of your series. I have been spouting off while you have alredy eloquently covered the topic(s). You should have told me to stop it up and read the entire excpose before commenting. My apology.
Guess one good thing to come out of it is that by using varied sources we have come up with some of the same conclusions.
I will be going back and reading what you wrote when the Saducees (sp) posed the trick question about the wife who married the 7 brothers in succession as they passed away and who she would end up with in the ressurrection. I have always felt that there was a translation problem there, but you have opened this up for alternate intrepretations.
No apology needed. I’m not saying my interpretation of the 7 brothers story is the only one, only that I believe it to be so, in so far as I have understanding of the subject.
Appreciate seeing another blogger on biblical topics. Congratulations for putting it out there.
Just found your series and read No. 10. I come away wondering how you view the Bible. In addition to asking us to love our neighbors, didn’t Jesus say also that there is no marriage in heaven?
How do you react to that statement?
Les, I appreciate your comments. You might want to read parts 1-9 of Is There a Mother in Heaven? I dealt with that question there. Thanks.
Cris