Why is it important for a couple to have seed.?

Question

The seven brother successivly married one woman so her husband who was dead would have seed. If they are not married in the hereafter, what is the purpose? Are families eternal? Does "THEY neither marry nor are given in marrage " refer to the seven brothers?

Answer 1

Back in the old times of an agrarian economy, and to maintain the family name, and to take care of you in your old age. The government has done everything they could to destroy the family, with child labor laws, social security, compulsory schooling, and now supporting of "alternative families".

Answer 2

In Biblical days, a woman that did not provide an offspring for her husband was an outcast. So it became their custom to have the next brother in line to provide that seed for the deceased husband.

It has nothing to do with children in the hereafter or heaven.

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Answer 3

Scriptures were never written to portray something literal. You have to turn the meaning within. All things in creation are in the pattern of male, female and child; or active, reflective and third force balance. When turned within self it is the flesh and our earthly nature that is made in the image and likeness of our spiritual self, it is therefore reflective or what is portrayed through scripture as the woman.

When a husband in scripture is portrayed as dead, it is in reference to the Spiritual Self being absent from the flesh. The seven brothers represent the seven spiritual centers of the flesh that seed its growth and have the capacity to build it into a pure vessel for her True Husband. When she is purified as personified in Mary, the Power of the Holy Spirit will connect with her own Inner Spiritual nature and this will give rise to the Son of God within you.

This is how Origin explains what is said by James: "They, again, are the widows, who have withdrawn themselves from the unjust man, to whom they had been united contrary to law; but who have remained widows, because they have not yet advanced to the stage of being joined to a heavenly Bridegroom." The "unjust man," in the above is none other than the "citizen" in the parable of the prodigal, whom many people would refer to as Satan. So, in the parable of the prodigal, those who are widows are those who have come to their senses, and have chosen to leave their prodigal living, and turn about, seeking the father who remains in the kingdom. Yet, equally important to understand is that widows are those who have divorced themselves from the "unjust man," yet have not yet been found worthy to enter into a spiritual relationship with what Origen refers to as a "heavenly Bridegroom." The ones who are worthy must, as James writes, "keep oneself from being polluted by the world" which is the purpose of the Nazirene vow of consecration.

This quote from Origin is also relevant, "But all the narrative portion, relating either to the marriages, or to the begetting of the children, or to battles of different kinds, or to any other histories whatever, what else can they be, save the forms and figures of hidden and sacred things? As men, however, make little effort to exercise their intellect, or imagine that they possess knowledge before they really learn, the consequence is that they never begin to have knowledge; or if there be no want of a desire, at least, nor of an instructor, and if divine knowledge be sought after, as it ought to be, in a religious and Holy Spirit, and in the hope that many points will be opened up by the revelation of God -- since to human sense they are exceedingly difficult and obscure -- then, perhaps, he who seeks in such a manner will find what it is lawful to discover."

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Answer 4

it is to keep part of the BLOOD LINE alive
through generations

and no no marraige or fleshly things in heaven

its a custom of the days for man to procreate
and leave thier legacy and blood line
onto generations


much like the lion community
the males mate with many lioness'
but if another male takes over the pride
he kills the babies of his prior mates

thus killing his seed and his blood line


its same way for humans and societies to continue
through Blood lines

and only way that can happen is through the MAN
thus leaving apart of Hisself through children
now days its a DNA make-up
and not just blood or name
thus why brothers asked should they produce to keep that DNA going through the generations
with thier dead brothers wife !!!

Hope that explains it better ?

Answer 5

That sounds like a night on the docks in Victoria when the sailors come home. Seeds are flying everywhere. it's actually pretty gross.

Answer 6

Religion wants the seed to grow up and put money into their coffers just like their parents did. More kids, more money to the church in the future... or so the theory goes.