Yeah, that's what I meant. Let's think about the story in context here:
The Saducees are arguing with Jesus, and trying to prove that there is no heaven. As part of their argument, they come up with a reductio ad absurdum: suppose some woman gets married to seven guys in sequence but they all die. So then she and the seven guys all go to heaven and she's married to all of them, which is clearly ridiculous, therefore there is no heaven, QED.
Jesus says, no, marriage is for this life only: people who are in heaven don't get married. If you *brought* the idea to the table that "get married" means "having sex", then you might think he said "people in heaven don't have sex". But actually he didn't say anything of the sort.
Interestingly, though, he doesn't just say that: he says that people who are in heaven don't get married and are "like the angels in heaven". People who think "people in heaven don't get married" means "people in heaven don't get laid" usually read "like the angels in heaven" as "asexual". But we know from Genesis and the book of Jude that angels are in fact capable of having sex, and willing to under at least some circumstances, so this is pretty silly; so "like the angels in heaven" must be irrelevant to sex, and actually just mean that angels don't get married and nor do saved humans in heaven.
Since marriage not existing in heaven is actually the point of the discussion in the first place, and sex didn't come up at all, I am even more inclined to believe this interpretation. People have based rather a lot on this one line taken out of context.
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The Saducees are arguing with Jesus, and trying to prove that there is no heaven. As part of their argument, they come up with a reductio ad absurdum: suppose some woman gets married to seven guys in sequence but they all die. So then she and the seven guys all go to heaven and she's married to all of them, which is clearly ridiculous, therefore there is no heaven, QED.
Jesus says, no, marriage is for this life only: people who are in heaven don't get married. If you *brought* the idea to the table that "get married" means "having sex", then you might think he said "people in heaven don't have sex". But actually he didn't say anything of the sort.
Interestingly, though, he doesn't just say that: he says that people who are in heaven don't get married and are "like the angels in heaven". People who think "people in heaven don't get married" means "people in heaven don't get laid" usually read "like the angels in heaven" as "asexual". But we know from Genesis and the book of Jude that angels are in fact capable of having sex, and willing to under at least some circumstances, so this is pretty silly; so "like the angels in heaven" must be irrelevant to sex, and actually just mean that angels don't get married and nor do saved humans in heaven.
Since marriage not existing in heaven is actually the point of the discussion in the first place, and sex didn't come up at all, I am even more inclined to believe this interpretation. People have based rather a lot on this one line taken out of context.