Luke 20:27-38:
Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. The second and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children. Finally, the woman died too. Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”
Jesus replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.
But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
This passage from the Gospel is very interesting. In my view, it confirms the idea that reproduction, in our dimension, is closely related to death. I'm not referring to the death of the seven brothers and then the widow. I'm focusing on the fact that there is no need for marriage among the resurrected, as Jesus says; that is, there is no need for reproduction in eternal life, as there is no loss of life. Death would be involved in the process of triggering reproduction, which works to maintain life here in this earthly stage; a rough analogy would be what happens to the cell undergoing the process of malignancy (see link 1 at the end).
Finally, once resurrected, we will not depend on reproducing; we will be, each one of us – if we are judged worthy – eternalized, that is, we will escape this vicious circle and enter the virtuous – Eternal Love... Total happiness!
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Related links:
(1) Excerpts
(2) About religion
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