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The most sought after women in the world--
DougE6:
John Michael...I think you hit it right on the head. Kat..very nice, as always.
Just by using a natural analogy that I think is appropriate...whatever pleasures the caterpillar has, in his blind terrestrial confined space on the food plant he munches on and loves so much...he hasn't a clue what the freedom and arboreal existence of the butterfly which he will someday be, he has no clue as to how much different and better life is on a much higher plane.
You cannot even compare what we are to what we will be. Sex will be absolutely unimportant and frankly, not missed. I don't think the butterfly misses chewing leaves compared to drinking nectar and the freedom of flight, and the beauty of what they are now...
Gina:
--- Quote from: jong on December 14, 2011, 03:02:05 AM ---Hi Gina,
Christ said there will be no "marriage" because all marriages in the bible as well as today are "until death do you part"
Romans 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of husband.
In the resurrection life, there will be no more death.
Of course, God will be the center of our lives, but we probably will have our own little circles of holy relationships also ??
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haha! No. Because think about it. Babies have died and never had gotten married. When they are resurrected, they will not marry or be given in marriage. Sex is not everything there is, and besides, it's a shadow of something much grander and much purer. Do we want the shadow or the One who casts the shadow? (And, no, I don't mean we'll be having sex with Christ. But whatever Paul saw in the trance he fell into must have been NO match for sex, otherwise Paul would have never said, it would be better if you didn't marry (not that you couldn't marry). How about Jesus? He obviously knows there's something grander than sex / marriage. He went to His death never having had it. Not having sex is not what killed Him. ;)
Gina:
--- Quote from: DougE6 on December 14, 2011, 09:13:10 AM --- I don't think the butterfly misses chewing leaves compared to drinking nectar and the freedom of flight, and the beauty of what they are now...
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Whoa!!! Now you're talkin!
DougE6:
1Co 15:28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
To me, those 6 words in bold sum it all up. What need of sex would we have when all of God is in all of us? How much closer communion would/could there be, than complete union with God and with each other? If I am filled to the fullness with Him, would I really need anything else? If I am completely satisfied with Him, do I need something like sex?
Sex, for all its pleasures, is intinsically carnal, earthly, physical, and selfish; it was a good way that God could illustrate to carnal loving minds the POTENTIAL oneness and the closeness of love. It is merely a shadow of the much deeper and greater oneness that will be between God and man and everyone with each other. And this oneness will not have jealousy, not have any selfishness associated with it at all.
mharrell08:
Looks like this topic has run its course. Let's move on.
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