In Matthew 22, the Pharisees ask Jesus what happens in the resurrection if woman has been widowed and remarried several times.
The New World Translation reads in Matthew 22:29-30 that " In reply Jesus said to them: “YOU are mistaken, because YOU know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God; for in the resurrection neither do men marry nor are women given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven."
It seems here, then, that these connections are removed in the resurrection.
However, the Watchtower tells us that at the resurrection, "Great will be the joy earth wide when group after group of dead persons come back to life to join their loved ones!" (http://watchtower.org/e/dg/index.htm?art...
By anyone's definition, "loved ones" include spouses.
So, how do we reconcile the idea that we will retain the connections we had during lives, with the idea that there is no such thing as marriage in the resurrection?
2007-10-06
14:46:51
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