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Dancing... or drinking through life
I am not even sure that I know how to do a link anymore. I'm giving it a shot though so, three readers, please forgive me if I mess this up.
So Rod Dreher's sister is battling cancer. It is nasty. Their faith is extraordinary. Here's his latest post (I think)
There are 8 comments on it.
As I scrolle
posted 3:05:22pm Mar. 02, 2010 |
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Back...
I'm back here at JWalking after a bit of time because I just want someplace to record thoughts from time to time. I doubt that many of the thoughts will be political - there are plenty upon plenty of people offering their opinions on everything political and I doubt that I have much to add that will
posted 10:44:56pm Mar. 01, 2010 |
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Learning to tell a story
For the last ten months or so I've been engaged in a completely different world - the world of screenwriting. It began as a writing project - probably the 21st Century version of a yen to write the great American novel - a shot at a screenplay. I knew that I knew nothing about the art but was inspir
posted 8:01:41pm Feb. 28, 2010 |
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And just one more
I have, I think, just one more round of chemo left.
When I go through my pill popping regimen tomorrow morning it will be the last time for this particular round of drugs. Twenty-three rounds, it seems, is enough.
What comes next? We'll go back to what we did after the surgery. We'll watch and measu
posted 11:38:45pm Nov. 18, 2008 |
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A Newfie for Obama
NPR asked me to do a short memo to the president-elect. I chose to do it on the dog he should choose... and why. Check it out.
posted 12:25:10am Nov. 15, 2008 |
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posted September 16, 2007 at 11:41 am
Sorry for the problems you have had posting comments to this post. I seem to have resolved the problem. David
posted September 16, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Probably won’t be called sex or even resemble it in its earthly form, but I can’t imagine a heaven where angels would not be able to touch the ecstatic together.
posted September 16, 2007 at 5:09 pm
It’s probably for the best that this page was down when I was about to leave a comment.
posted September 16, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
- Mark Twain
posted September 16, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Well, I’ll step in where Doug has better sense
Sex in Heaven? Unbound by marriage? I think you’ve found a message certain to increase the fold. But would it be confined to missionary position? What about oral? Anal? Gays? And what about privacy? Orgies in heaven?
Seriously, though, I think Jesus was merely speaking so that those listening to him at the time could understand. After all, where is Heaven located such that a physical body, one requiring food and drink and warmth and air, could travel there in an instant?
Or did he mean that Heaven for the resurrected is here on Earth? That would be a short-lived eternity since Earth likely will be engulfed by the sun when it goes nova in about 5 billion years.
This is a great question! It opens up a host of other questions, such as will we be able to eat whatever we couldn’t eat before? What about pain? That doesn’t sound very heavenly. Um…waste elimination?
Makes me wonder if sometimes Jesus didn’t just give blow-off answers like a parent gives a persistent child asking why, why, why?
“Yes, Peter, this is excellent fish. Yeah, sure, you can eat fish and drink wine after the resurrection…as much as you want. Whoa, John, no more mushrooms for you…they’ll give you strange dreams.”
posted September 17, 2007 at 12:17 am
For everyone who skipped it here to go there, I hope so.
Tempt me not.
posted September 17, 2007 at 3:56 am
The desire for sex, and the related passions, cause a lot of problems.
I’m not sure that I even want there to be sex in heaven. But then, what do I know; I am not a Christian.
posted September 17, 2007 at 8:53 am
The theology of heaven needs some work.
As it stands in the layman’s mind, it currently appeals mostly to
the very young or simpleminded:
Yes, there will be ice cream, and puppies, and angels with golden harps, any you’ll be able to fly anywhere you want!
and the very old or sick:
There will be no more sickness or decay, and you’ll be able to lay your weary burdens down.
What is there in heaven to appeal to an individual of youngish to middle age years who enjoys productive work and takes pleasure in sex?
posted June 16, 2009 at 1:29 am
In case anyone is still reading, a positive (though possibly speculative) case can be made that male-female relationships similar to marital bonds can continue between the redeemed into the next life. This may then also imply a romantic, physical or even sexual aspect in such a relationship.
Below are some websites that make this positive case (across Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant strands of Christianity). Each website does deal with the marriage pericope of Mt 22 to a lesser or greater degree -
1. http://rezfamilies.googlepages.com
2. http://www.ewtn.org/library/Marriage/zmarrheavn.htm
3. http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&id=YSSCUO1tonkC&dq=meyendorff+marriage%20&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=5NSzvkqo5M&sig%20=hBJchN5_JtqohBFEy0xFHYABFJI#PPA15,M1
Whether you find these arguments convincing is ultimately up to you.
PS. please note according to historic Christian doctrine, the next life involves the resurrection, which is physical in nature, and is not to be identified with “heaven” (where the redeemed go after death to await future physical resurrection of their bodies) – please see this link for more explanation -
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710844,00.html