Will There Be Sex in Heaven?

[Roughsoul1991]

So, before I sat down to type this post, I prayed and supplicated in the hopes that thunder wouldn't strike me for thinking these carnal thoughts...

Just kidding. Lol.

So, this is a legitimate question. I've heard a few arguments for and against. I started thinking about this after I heard about a famous preacher who spoke at a singles seminar. After one of the sessions, some young people approached him with trepidation and asked him if God would allow sex in Heaven. They looked embarrassed, but he told them that that was actually was a legitimate question. He could see that they were concerned that if they never got married on earth, they still wanted to experience marriage and all its benefits in Heaven. Too bad I don't remember the answer he gave them.

I don't have a clear opinion on the matter. Some people mention that Jesus said, "In the resurrection neither do men marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven [who do not marry nor produce children]" (Matthew 22:30). They use this verse to say that there won't be sex in Heaven. But this is talking about marriage and child-bearing, not sex.

My opinion on the matter is pure speculation: I basically reason that when God created man and woman and said that everything was "good", He obviously included sex in that. Since God gives and doesn't take away (ie. He doesn't take away anything that is good or anything that He gives since all He gives are good), God won't take away sex or make it obsolete in Heaven just because good things don't pass away. Looking through the Bible, I can't recall a single time when God gave a good thing and then took it away with the reasoning that it was no longer 'needed'.

What are your thoughts on this topic?

Two Scriptures


Isaiah 65:17-20
New International Version
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem
and take delight in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying
will be heard in it no more.
20 “Never again will there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

Matthew 22:30
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

Okay so this is where I believe the debate gets interesting.

The New Earth is the New Heaven as God makes His dwelling amongst us in a new Jerusalem.

The New Earth will be familiar but perfected and without evil.

This is where we as resurrected bodies from the current Earth or current Heaven will live out our days.

We know that life after death is eternal so how can there be death on the New Earth which implies somehow babies are formed as well.

We are also told marriage will be a thing of the past and we will be much like the angels but in a glorified state higher than the angels as we will be children of God.

Some debate that Isaiah was prophesying a future event for Jerusalem but also a future event after the end of time.

But I'm not sure if that completely justifies the complete erasing of future thought just because it may bother our theology.

What if there will be new kids on the new Earth?

Like the angels? Well angels did procreate at one time too.

At the resurrection people will not marry or be married. Is this only at the resurrection or all eternity?

I believe I am completely comfortable with saying I don't know nor care. Heaven will be infinitely times better than sex which is hard for humans to imagine because in absence of drugs that can activate hormones it is one of the best pleasures God gave to us. But the pleasure of serving God, being in his presence, and experiencing the adventure of life eternal will be more pleasurable.

 

[TheNarrowPath]

The Biblical context for sex is within marriage. There will be no marriage in heaven.

As much as I miss it, I have to agree.

 

[Magenta]

Like the angels? Well angels did procreate at one time too.

That's debatable

 

[Bluesproverb]

And here I thought it meant you acted like a team instead of two different individuals.

So much for quadriplegics. They will never truly be married.

Your post reminds me of an angry atheists forum I stumbled upon when I first got on the Net.
WHY WON'T GOD HEAL AMPUTEES?

I haven't thought of that site,likely dead now, in years.

 

[Bluesproverb]

Two Scriptures


Isaiah 65:17-20
New International Version
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem
and take delight in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying
will be heard in it no more.
20 “Never again will there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

Matthew 22:30
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

Okay so this is where I believe the debate gets interesting.

The New Earth is the New Heaven as God makes His dwelling amongst us in a new Jerusalem.

The New Earth will be familiar but perfected and without evil.

This is where we as resurrected bodies from the current Earth or current Heaven will live out our days.

We know that life after death is eternal so how can there be death on the New Earth which implies somehow babies are formed as well.

We are also told marriage will be a thing of the past and we will be much like the angels but in a glorified state higher than the angels as we will be children of God.

Some debate that Isaiah was prophesying a future event for Jerusalem but also a future event after the end of time.

But I'm not sure if that completely justifies the complete erasing of future thought just because it may bother our theology.

What if there will be new kids on the new Earth?

Like the angels? Well angels did procreate at one time too.

At the resurrection people will not marry or be married. Is this only at the resurrection or all eternity?

I believe I am completely comfortable with saying I don't know nor care. Heaven will be infinitely times better than sex which is hard for humans to imagine because in absence of drugs that can activate hormones it is one of the best pleasures God gave to us. But the pleasure of serving God, being in his presence, and experiencing the adventure of life eternal will be more pleasurable.

'Like the angels? Well angels did procreate at one time too.'

That's true.

Genesis 6. The giants ,Nephilim, and mighty men, Gibborim, in scripture were the resulting offspring of that union between Angels, 'Son's of God', and mortal women.

Lord! And today we think reporting a woman recently gave vaginal birth to a 14 pound baby must have hurt.... 🤯😳

🙃

 

[Roughsoul1991]

That's debatable

It is. It was rebellion but obviously possible lol

 

[Roughsoul1991]

'Like the angels? Well angels did procreate at one time too.'

That's true.

Genesis 6. The giants ,Nephilim, and mighty men, Gibborim, in scripture were the resulting offspring of that union between Angels, 'Son's of God', and mortal women.

Lord! And today we think reporting a woman recently gave vaginal birth to a 14 pound baby must have hurt.... 🤯😳

🙃

Yes woman are warriors.

 

[Live4Him3]

Seeing how heaven is merely an intermediate place where the righteous dead go until they return back to this earth in their glorified bodies at the second coming of Jesus Christ, the question is invalid.

 

[Moses_Young]

'Like the angels? Well angels did procreate at one time too.'

That's true.

Genesis 6. The giants ,Nephilim, and mighty men, Gibborim, in scripture were the resulting offspring of that union between Angels, 'Son's of God', and mortal women.

Is that really procreation, though? I think of that as more creating abominations, like Frankensteins. Angels weren't producing more angels, they were producing nephilim.

Lord! And today we think reporting a woman recently gave vaginal birth to a 14 pound baby must have hurt.... 🤯😳

🙃

I don't think the reporting hurts so much.

 

[seoulsearch]

Like the angels? Well angels did procreate at one time too.

Is that really procreation, though? I think of that as more creating abominations, like Frankensteins. Angels weren't producing more angels, they were producing nephilim.

I was wondering about this too.

I was under the impression that if this actually was a time when angels were reproducing, it was forbidden, because it was with humans, and an act of rebellion against God's design.

But I don't think anyone really knows from this side of earthly life.

Maybe it was possible, but I guess I was just under the impression that it was neither good nor endorsed (in this case -- maybe there were other cases in which God found it acceptable?) It's always been interesting to me that most human cultures have erroneous but traditional stories about "half-lings" created between super beings and humans. Makes you wonder if every myth was based on just a little shred of truth (as in, something that really happened, just in another way than described in human mythologies.)

Have angels ever reproduced with other angels?

It's yet another question thrown onto the pile of my increasingly growing mountain of "Things to Ask God Someday."

 

[Gojira]

I was wondering about this too.

I was under the impression that if this actually was a time when angels were reproducing, it was forbidden, because it was with humans, and an act of rebellion against God's design.

But I don't think anyone really knows from this side of earthly life.

Maybe it was possible, but I guess I was just under the impression that it was neither good nor endorsed (in this case -- maybe there were other cases in which God found it acceptable?) It's always been interesting to me that most human cultures have erroneous but traditional stories about "half-lings" created between super beings and humans. Makes you wonder if every myth was based on just a little shred of truth (as in, something that really happened, just in another way than described in human mythologies.)

Have angels ever reproduced with other angels?

It's yet another question thrown onto the pile of my increasingly growing mountain of "Things to Ask God Someday."

Yep, intriguing thoughts for sure. I too have pondered these ideas. We have stories of Hercules and others who were supposed to be "demi-gods".

In light of your final question, I will have to ask Him about mosquitos and cockroaches. But, I digress from the original topic.

 

[Gojira]

And today we think reporting a woman recently gave vaginal birth to a 14 pound baby must have hurt....

eeeeeyyyyikes!!!!!

Glad I'm not a woman.

 

[Bluesproverb]

eeeeeyyyyikes!!!!!

Glad I'm not a woman.

I imagine it would make quite an impression.

 

[Gojira]

I also like Franklin Graham's (or was it his father's?) answer to Sean Hannity when he asked him if there was sex in Heaven. Graham's answer was "Unless there's something better..."

He also tells us that Heaven has things in it we cannot imagine. That's not an understatement. I think we'll see colors that go beyond the current limits of our eyes. Things that apply here may not apply there. Or... there may just be a higher order of... everything. So, what seems wrong to us now does so because it is... but in the new earth, where all things will be restored, and things that we cannot imagine will also be there, I think sex or something like it or better than it can also exist.

 

[Gojira]

I imagine it would make quite an impression.

What the... are they the... undead??

 

[Bluesproverb]

Is that really procreation, though? I think of that as more creating abominations, like Frankensteins. Angels weren't producing more angels, they were producing nephilim.

The Summerian's wrote extensively about the Annunaki and the Nephilim.

I don't think the reporting hurts so much.

Yes, that would be the easy part.

A friend works in the maternity ward back home. The largest baby delivered in his time there was 13 lbs. and that was by C-section. That's no picnic either. 😬

 

[Bluesproverb]

What the... are they the... undead??

Nah,they're just walking funny.🙃

 

[Gojira]

A friend works in the maternity ward back home. The largest baby delivered in his time there was 13 lbs. and that was by C-section. That's no picnic either. 😬

Yep, I reiterate my earlier statement.

 

[Gojira]

Yep, I reiterate my earlier statement.

Fortunately, I'm a member of a species that lays the eggs BEFORE the kid is born. They're not internally fertilized. Sheesh. Gastly!

 

[Lynx]

Seeing how heaven is merely an intermediate place where the righteous dead go until they return back to this earth in their glorified bodies at the second coming of Jesus Christ, the question is invalid.

Which brand of church did you hear that from? Heaven is only a whistle stop before we come back down here? My Bible says it's gonna REPLACE the world we broke with sin.

It is true, though, that we will have different bodies. Also we will not be marrying people. So it is logical to assume our new bodies will not have a sex drive. Unless... Someone thinks we'll just go around doing it with random people for kicks?

Reminds me of this one guy at my job who thought he would ask me a tricky question. "If someone was cloned 12 times, and 6 of his clones were good and 6 of his clones were bad, will he go to heaven or hell?"

His question was predicated on the assumption that our bodies are inextricably tied to our souls, so if a clone of his body was evil it might keep the original person out of Heaven. Resisting the urge to quote the part about him being in error because he didn't know scripture, I explained that the body can be separated from the soul because we get new bodies.