In another topic, someone said that a lack of marriage in heaven was "supposed."

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When people rise from the dead, they will not marry, nor will they be given to someone to marry. They will be like the angels in heaven.
Matthew 22:30 NCV

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But those who will be worthy to be raised from the dead and live again will not marry, nor will they be given to someone to marry.
Luke 20:35 NCV

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What do we think? Will there be marriage in heaven, on the new earth, or after we are resurrected? Do angels marry?

Where Adam and Eve married before sin? Is the new earth going back to the way of life before they fell or is God planing something new?

/Thomas

Even though Adam and Ever were not married, they were designated only for each other. In the situation that Jesus is responding to, in both verses, there would be quite a mess if there were designated couples in heaven. Wondering if there are designated couples or marriage would inevitably lead us to the same question those who were trying to trick Jesus asked.

Witch husband would she be with?

Weather there is marriage is not a concern of mine because I have faith that if there is not marriage then there will be something much better, this is coming from someone who has just celebrated 25 years of a most excellent marriage. (To the same women even!)

Redfog

Adam and Eve were married by God in an official ceremony. The Bible is very clear about that. In fact, Jesus said that God gave the sermon. "Have you not read," Jesus said, "that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female and said (and this is the summary of the sermon) -- For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh --? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate." Mat. 19:4-6

But marriage was for the express purpose of procreation and therefore would be old-fashioned in heaven. When Jesus returns in glory, the number of the children of God would have been reached. Humanity is really Divinely appointed surrogacy. John 3:3

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Before sin, be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth.
Rise from the dead, they will not marry.

When the saved return to the earth, will they no longer multiply, or just not marry?

Both.

Why do you suppose the statement, fill the earth, is not for the new earth? What has changed?

What has changed is that the New Earth will already be populated with an adequate number of redeemed human beings.

So we're past filled, then!

Which then leads to support of the idea that we are over populated and some should be eliminated. I think it was Bill Gates said 5 million?