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Comment on I have been told ever since I was a little shit that when you die you go to heaven first wait in line for St Peter to judge you at the pearly gates? Is this in the Bible? I thought god did judging

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Matthew 20:30

“At resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.”

I think that’s where the sentiment comes from. It’s explicit in Mormonism (I think). In mainstream Christianity the saved don’t become angels, they become like angels.

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jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

… they become like angels.

In the sense that they no longer have sexual or romantic urges, would be my reading of that passage.

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- FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yes that’s the context - Jesus saying no one will be married in heaven. Either angels are asexual or they’re all male. The latter is a little more likely given all angels in the bible are presented as male. Which if that’s the case has weird implications for what female Christians become when they’re resurrected. Some weird male equivalent? So now we’re “all like the angels”?
  
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  - angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    All male. So no marriage, only sex.
    
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  - shasta@lemm.ee ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Women don’t go to heaven. What a silly question
    
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