Is there marriage in heaven?

E. Christian Brugger, NCRegister

Thursday, June 16, 2022

In heaven, we will not share bodies in the procreative way married persons share them here. We will share them in a metaphysical way. Because communion in the heaven will be immeasurably deeper than here, it is not unreasonable to conclude that that there will be a kind of bodily intimacy there too.
 

 

 

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