2007-08-21 15:52:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
if you look in verse 29. It says NOR like there is anouther way? But you do not know this way, that is why you have to be like the angels and have no marriage.
2007-08-21 15:54:36 · update #1
God is a superstition. It really doesn't matter what old zealots said almost 2000 years ago.
2007-08-21 15:57:22 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If this is an honest question. nor means negative so neither marry nor give in marriage. It seems to say that we would be as the angles in heaven that sounds like a good way to be. There is no reason for sex then. Hope that this helps. God bless.
2007-08-21 23:21:39 · answer #2 · answered by Ron 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Sadducees did not believe in a resurrection, as is clear, not only from the Gospel accounts, but also from the record at Acts 23:6-10, which tells of the strife between the Pharisees and Sadducees that Paul caused by stating that he believed in the resurrection of the dead. The tricky question the Sadducees asked, about a woman having had seven brothers in succession as husbands and whose wife she would be in the resurrection, was meant to prove Jesus mistaken, but he turned the tables on them and proved them mistaken.
But because the Sadducees held that only the Pentateuch was inspired, Jesus used the words of Jehovah to Moses at the burning bush to prove his point.
This was really a master stroke on the part of Jesus, for the Sadducees prided themselves on knowing the Pentateuch and yet they had not seen in it the clear implication of the resurrection that Jesus pointed out to them. They had not gained the import of what God said to Moses at the burning bush to indicate that he, Jehovah God, is the Deity, not of the dead, but of the living. For the then dead Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to live again to worship their common God they would have to experience a resurrection from the dead. Jehovah God was equal to this miracle of the resurrection of the dead.
The fact that God had the resurrection power had been illustrated even by Jesus himself as the Son of God prior to the time that the Sadducees tried to stump Jesus with their tricky question.
Jesus easily cut through their resurrection problem by informing the Sadducees that those who will be resurrected to life on earth neither marry nor are given in marriage, and hence there will exist no question as to whose wife the woman will be who in this old world had seven brothers successively as her husband. Jesus thus showed that, though the Sadducees were familiar with the recorded Scriptures, particularly the law of Moses, they had no real knowledge of their meaning and prophetic
2007-08-22 00:14:28 · answer #3 · answered by BJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In this verse, Jesus is answering the question from the Sadducees. In order for you to fully understand it, you need to go back and read from verse 23. What Jesus is saying is that there is no marriage in Heaven. My husband on earth will not be my husband there. This is because the "Church" is the "Bride of Christ". "Church" meaning the entire Christian body here on earth. The entire Christian church will be "married" to Christ. Not in a carnal, sexual kind of way, but in the spiritual sense that you get from the joining of souls. I know that sounds kind of out there, but I'm just telling you what the Bible says.
**EDIT**
He uses the word "nor" in accordance with tradition. It says "neither marry nor be given in marriage". Traditionally, men marry while women are given away in marriage. So, Jesus was saying that neither men nor women will be married in Heaven.
2007-08-21 23:03:02 · answer #4 · answered by The Apple Chick 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nor, in the Greek, is "mede" and means "not so much as". It is used because they neither understood the scriptures in this regard, nor believed that God was more powerful than the silly question. In other words, they were not only ignorant, they were faithless.
2007-08-21 23:01:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They don't know the scriptures, nor the power of God (to be able to rise the death, since they didn't believe in resurrection)
2007-08-21 23:05:01 · answer #6 · answered by Joshua 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The power of God will provide for new and greater relationships that transcend the physcial relationships of the present order.
2007-08-21 23:02:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God has ALL Power, He can do anything
2007-08-21 23:01:34 · answer #8 · answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Use the KJV. Maybe that would help because it does not say that in my Bible.
2007-08-21 23:00:53 · answer #9 · answered by Summer Dawn 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
more christian buybull crap!
2007-08-21 22:57:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋