Is There a Mother in Heaven? Part 10 of 10—What’s Forever For?

Here is an important question to consider: Why not forever marriage in heaven? Why does it seem so offensive to many?

Think about it. We make close, intimate ties on earth with our spouses—okay, some of us do. Nevertheless, does it make sense that God would take two loving, intimate spouses, then tear them apart to live singly for eternity just because they died? That would be akin to some kind of hell, I would think—a hell in heaven!

Michael Martin Murphy put it this way, “And if love never lasts forever, tell me what’s forever for?” Or to put it another way, “And if marriage doesn’t lasts forever, what’s marriage for?”

Is There a Mother in Heaven? Part 9 of 10—No Marriage in Heaven?

This idea of forever marriage speaks deeply of the importance of marriage in eternity. This would suggest that marriage is apparently more than a mere temporary arrangement—in other words, not “Till death do you part,” which is a temporary arrangement.

The question can then be asked: If God would have his children be married—i.e., not just married, but married forever!—then what about God himself? Would it be of any less importance to him? Modern thinking would have us believe so.

What purpose would it serve God, if all his children had forever spouses and he did not? His children would then be in possession of something that he himself did not possess! Pretty unthinkable, I would imagine.

Is There a Mother in Heaven? Part 8 of 10—Is Marriage Forever?

Remember what Jesus said? God did the joining. Let no man put it asunder. Man cannot break what God has joined together. That sounds pretty forever to me!

Yet, how easy we break those marriage vows here on earth. Divorce is rampant, even among professed Christians. I, myself, have been divorced three times! Not that I’m proud of the fact; I’m not.

Originally there was no divorce, but as Jesus said:

“Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.” ( Matthew 19:8.)

This means that God originally, and still does, intend marriage to last forever. And here’s something else to remember:

Is There a Mother in Heaven? Part 7 of 10—Is There Marriage in Heaven?

If there were no Mother in heaven, then God, the Father, would be forever single. Of course, this is how 99.999 percent of all Christianity view him anyway (guesstimate mine).

But if God were forever single, then why would he care if his children were married or not? What purpose could it possibly serve?

If man were modeled after God, and the scriptures tell us he was, then why would he require his children to do something he himself was unwilling to do—i.e., be married?

Remember, in the Lord’s Prayer Jesus addressed the Father:

“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:10.)

Is There a Mother in Heaven? Part 6 of 10—God Does Not Play Dice

Finally, I cannot believe that God, the Father, could be both male and female, that both could be created in his own male likeness and image. To me, this goes beyond all good sense and reason. And remember, God does use the pronoun “us” in his proclamation of intended and actual creation. (See Genesis 1:26-27.)

In short, I believe in a God of order who works by natural laws—eternal laws! Look around you. His creations speak—no, shout!—of order. And to create a female out of a male does not speak to me of order or of any natural law.

Even cloning, as abhorrent as I think it is, duplicates the DNA. Thus, a clone will have the same sex as its source.

Also, if you look at the fact that man and woman are inherently different in form and in nature, you should be able to see they both could not be modeled after the same personage. All you have to do is compare yourself with your spouse or significant other . . . whatever that is.

Is There a Mother in Heaven? Part 5 of 10—Are We a Reflection of God’s Nature?

If the man Adam looked like God in form, and if man was modeled after God’s own being, to be a shadow of himself, then surely the reverse is also true: God, in form, looks like the man he created after his own image. Stephen’s pre-death experience would certainly lend credence to this idea (see Acts 7:55-56).

The same idea may be implied in the relationship between our asserted Mother in heaven and the woman.

In regards to the man, the same language used in Genesis 1:26-27 was used later when Adam was compared with his son Seth:

Is There a Mother in Heaven? Part 4 of 10—Modeling Man and Woman

I think of the earth and all its inhabitants as a sort of microcosm of heaven—that is, the heaven where I believe we all came from. Of course, heaven is on a much higher plane than earth, yet who’s to say what the earth was patterned after? It might as well be patterned after heaven as any other place.

What we do know is the pattern after which man and woman were created.

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness . . .
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” (Genesis 1:26-27.)

Wherever we came from, it would seem that the patterns for creating earthly man and woman resided in heaven, for that is where God resides.