I try to view God from a standpoint of a loving father, who wants us to be happy. I believe that marriage is the greatest gift and tender mercy we have been given with exception only to the greatest gift of all which is our Savior Jesus Christ.
Some people will look at certain scripture and interpret it to mean that there is no marriage in the next life, or the other thing often overlooked is that scripture itself has gone through many translations over the centuries, mingled with the theology of man. At times it requires discernment and personal revelation as to the correct context and the message God is trying to teach us.
I fully believe that the correct way to view the whole claim of there being no marriage in the next life is simply that you choose what you want in this mortal life. For those who choose marriage, they will certainly continue to choose it and have their marriages in the next life, if everyone is still willing and worthy. But for those who didn’t choose it in this life, will probably not choose it in the next life either because their spirit that possesses them here in mortality will continue to be who they are eternally. It is by their own doing and choosing.
I do not believe for even a moment that a man and a woman who fall in love, give themselves to each other, to share a lifetime of beauty, love, difficulties at times that they overcame together, children, and building a broader family or kingdom, all the memories of their children growing up, smiles on faces, their love shared, just for everyone to go their own separate way, alone, throw it all out, and ended at death. What a sad, miserable and heartbreaking despair to contemplate. That is not the attributes of what God is trying to give us here. God is building us into greater people who are His children, with more love, with bigger families, more children, to turn us into patriarch and matriarch(s), if we choose to learn those greater gifts and understand Him. Just my two cents worth.
Some people will look at certain scripture and interpret it to mean that there is no marriage in the next life, or the other thing often overlooked is that scripture itself has gone through many translations over the centuries, mingled with the theology of man. At times it requires discernment and personal revelation as to the correct context and the message God is trying to teach us.
I fully believe that the correct way to view the whole claim of there being no marriage in the next life is simply that you choose what you want in this mortal life. For those who choose marriage, they will certainly continue to choose it and have their marriages in the next life, if everyone is still willing and worthy. But for those who didn’t choose it in this life, will probably not choose it in the next life either because their spirit that possesses them here in mortality will continue to be who they are eternally. It is by their own doing and choosing.
I do not believe for even a moment that a man and a woman who fall in love, give themselves to each other, to share a lifetime of beauty, love, difficulties at times that they overcame together, children, and building a broader family or kingdom, all the memories of their children growing up, smiles on faces, their love shared, just for everyone to go their own separate way, alone, throw it all out, and ended at death. What a sad, miserable and heartbreaking despair to contemplate. That is not the attributes of what God is trying to give us here. God is building us into greater people who are His children, with more love, with bigger families, more children, to turn us into patriarch and matriarch(s), if we choose to learn those greater gifts and understand Him. Just my two cents worth.