🚀 go-pugleaf

What Do angels do in heaven?


In article <By6spp.Dpt@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> creps@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps) writes:
>From: creps@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)
>Subject: Re: The Pope on Sex and Heaven, the Full Quote
>Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:53:49 GMT
>In article <1992Nov19.204201.2387@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
>>
>>	In the Nov. 23, 1992 issue of Time magazine, on the bottom of
>>page 15, there is a blurb called "Pack some Good Books". It goes:
>>
>>	Heaven may offer the sweetest rewards, but at times they are
>>difficult for mere mortals to imagine. Visiting a parish in Rome this
>>month, Pope John Paul II explained a key difference between heaven and
>>earth: on the far side of the pearly gates, there is no sex. Residents
>>of paradise need no mates, said the Pontiff, because "they are like
>>angels."
>>
>>	I confess that there are a lot of people, myself included,
>>that wouldn't look forward to that kind of Heaven.
>
>   Too bad, because that's how Jesus describes Heaven in Matthew
>22:24-30:
>
>"Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his
>brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.  Now
>there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married
>a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his
>brother: Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
>And last of all the woman died also.  Therefore in the resurrection
>whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.  Jesus
>answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures,
>nor the power of God.  For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor
>are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven."
>
>-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
>Steve Creps, Indiana University
>creps@silver.ucs.indiana.edu



_____________________________________________________________________
|Stephan Fassmann  Internet: $stephan@sasb.byu.edu  GEnie: S.FASSMANN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|The Random Acts of Kindness will Continue until Morale Deteriorates|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~