Is There Sex in Heaven?
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A very well-written response to "Is there sex in Heaven?" This is worth the read...
http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/sex-in-heaven.htm
Short excerpt-
The body is not a mistake to be unmade or a prison cell to be freed from, but a divine work of arto designed to show forth the soul as the soul is to show forth God, in splendor and glory and overflow of generous superfluity.
But is there sexual intercourse in Heaven? If we have bodily sex organs, what do we use them for there?
Not baby-making. Earth is the breeding colony; Heaven is the homeland.
Not marriage. Christ's words to the Sadducees are quite clear about that. It is in regard to marriage that we are "like the angels". (Note that it is not said that we are like the angels in any other ways, such as lacking physical bodies.)
Might there be another function in which baby-making and marriage are swallowed up and transformed, aufgehoben? Everything on earth is analogous to something in Heaven. Heaven neither simply removes nor simply continues earthly things. If we apply this principle to sexual intercourse, we get the conclusion that intercourse on earth is a shadow or symbol of intercourse in Heaven. Could we speculate about what that could be?
If you're wondering how I came upon this article...and I know you were! Peter Kreeft, the author of the article, is a theologian and apologists and is the co-author of one of the primary books I will be referring to in the Apolgetics class at ELITE. I stumbled across his article while researching his website. It was interesting enough; to be honest, I never really thought about it, and my knee jerk response would be NO! But read his answer and you may be persuaded "it" is in Heaven too!
A very well-written response to "Is there sex in Heaven?" This is worth the read...
http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/sex-in-heaven.htm
Short excerpt-
The body is not a mistake to be unmade or a prison cell to be freed from, but a divine work of arto designed to show forth the soul as the soul is to show forth God, in splendor and glory and overflow of generous superfluity.
But is there sexual intercourse in Heaven? If we have bodily sex organs, what do we use them for there?
Not baby-making. Earth is the breeding colony; Heaven is the homeland.
Not marriage. Christ's words to the Sadducees are quite clear about that. It is in regard to marriage that we are "like the angels". (Note that it is not said that we are like the angels in any other ways, such as lacking physical bodies.)
Might there be another function in which baby-making and marriage are swallowed up and transformed, aufgehoben? Everything on earth is analogous to something in Heaven. Heaven neither simply removes nor simply continues earthly things. If we apply this principle to sexual intercourse, we get the conclusion that intercourse on earth is a shadow or symbol of intercourse in Heaven. Could we speculate about what that could be?
If you're wondering how I came upon this article...and I know you were! Peter Kreeft, the author of the article, is a theologian and apologists and is the co-author of one of the primary books I will be referring to in the Apolgetics class at ELITE. I stumbled across his article while researching his website. It was interesting enough; to be honest, I never really thought about it, and my knee jerk response would be NO! But read his answer and you may be persuaded "it" is in Heaven too!
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