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?”
Didn’t Jesus tell us to love our neighbors as ourselves? For what purpose? Just to have that love disappear when we die and go to heaven? Are we to lose all sensibilities towards our spouses, children and friends when we die and go to heaven? Modern thinking would have us believe so, although I don’t believe most Christians in the trench, so to speak, believe this is true.
If this were true, heaven would be a very lonely and hellish place. Remember, heaven is for eternity! And so are our emotions!
What better way to preserve these God-given feelings for one another than to continue the institution of marriage and family that God created on earth? Of course, in my view, the pattern God used to establish marriage on earth was taken from heaven itself, starting with he himself and our Mother in heaven.
In spite of all that has been said, the idea of a Mother in heaven is still conjecture, so far as the Bible is concerned. Yet, there is a good deal of circumstantial evidence to suggest that there is, indeed, a heavenly Mother.
The question may then be asked: If there is a Mother in heaven, why don’t we hear about her? And it’s a good question.
Perhaps it’s because it’s not necessary for our salvation and eternal life, which is in Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is to spare her from the filthy mouths of vulgar people who routinely use the name of God and his Christ at the ends of their profane tongues.
And so there you have it.
Regardless of what has been presented here, the reader still must decide for him- or herself if having a Mother in heaven is something he or she can wrap their minds and hearts around.
In the end, it doesn’t really matter. As one reader suggested, we will find out sooner or later when this life is over and we have all gone to heaven . . . assuming that all will go to heaven.
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