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@ XenoMalevenBixnood
2025-02-12 16:45:01
and it's not that i think you're wrong either. I hope she is your soulmate. you seem far happier than you deserve and she hasn't left you yet when there are clear signs she should, so God has to be looking out for you. But there's a difference between wanting something and it being true. I thought my wife was my soulmate when i met her, but that can't be confirmed until decades down the road, namsayin?
But if God has soulmates (the children of Israel) then why can't we have our own?
So the Sadducees are very rarely mentioned in the Gospels. They didn't believe in a resurrections at all so this question is clearly "bait."
Luke 20
>27 There came to him some Sad′ducees, those who say that there is no resurrection, 28 and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man[b] must take the wife and raise up children for his brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and died without children; 30 and the second 31 and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. 32 Afterward the woman also died. 33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”
>34 And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage; 35 but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,
Jesus's response might imply there is no marriage in heaven, but of course there is (marriage to Him), but his responses are also very clever and cryptic, so much so that his apostles often ask for explanation because they don't understand. He is telling the Sadducee that your method of generating a wife is not a legitimate method in the kingdom of Heaven.
It would contradict him in Mark 6 where he said
>6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,[a] 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”