Comments on: Will There Be Sex in Heaven?

By: cell

cell — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:51:16 +0000

No sex in heaven? Just another reason why I don’t want anything to do with heaven. I would rather “perish”

By: Rezfamilies rezfamilies

Rezfamilies rezfamilies — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:02:19 +0000

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. This positive case is made on my website (click on my name) – all interested visitors are welcome.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:29:12 +0000

I realize we are not taking Kreeft weriously here, but Doug Groothuis thought that this idea should be reviewed.

Kreeft subscribes to a troubling view of sexuality, one that over-sexualizes both God and humans. This view logically leads to the inferiority of women, although Kreeft would deny it. He thinks that God is male, because God initiates in creation and redemption. Thus, men mirror God as initiators and leaders in ways that women do not. The implication is that men are more like God than women are, thus rendering women ontologically inferior to men. But the Bible never deems women as inferior to men in their being. Both woman and man were given authority to rule the earth and both were made in Godâ€™s image and likeness (Genesis 1:26).

The problem with Kreeftâ€™s reasoning lies in granting God a gender at all. God is, of course, a personal being: â€œI am who I amâ€ is Godâ€™s name forever (Exodus 3:14-15). God is not an impersonal force, principle, or substance, as pantheism teaches. We rightly refer to God metaphorically as â€œour Fatherâ€ (as well as other biblical names and descriptions of Godâ€™s character) but this is not a sexual reference. This is because God has neither a body nor any need for a sexual partner in order to create. Rather, God creates out of nothing; but humans procreate sexually on the basis of what God has given them. Gender is a category of creation, not a category applicable to the Creator.

But Kreeft even sexualizes creation out of nothing, saying that God â€œimpregnates nothingnessâ€ to create everything. Through this kind of reasoning, sexuality gains a theological significance it was never meant to bear, and women bear the brunt of the metaphysical blunder. (Moreover, nothingness cannot, by definition, be â€œimpregnated,â€ since there is nothing there to be impregnated.)

By: mlm

mlm — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:33:50 +0000

Haven’t experts stopped using the term “sex” in favor of “gender”? I’m so confused.

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:19:14 +0000

“For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.” Mark 12:24

I think Jesus is pretty clear on the topic.

By: Ronjour Locke

Ronjour Locke — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:21:54 +0000

Now is he saying that there will be “sex” in heaven in the sense of gender, or in the sense of intercourse. For unless there is a different ethic in heaven, sex as intercourse is a distinctly marital act, something that Jesus said will not be in heaven because its primary purposes– procreation and Gospel magnification– will be fulfilled. But I would agree that our humanness will be realized par excellence in glorification. And if that is the case, then our gender distinctions will be magnified in all its sinless beauty, and God will be glorified as the One who created them male and female.

By: dorsey

dorsey — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:19:58 +0000

â€œEye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.â€

Sex in paradise? Who can say?

By: julie

julie — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:17:08 +0000

Guys,
Peter Kreeft is not a theologian, Catholic or otherwise. Peter Kreeft is a HERETIC. You see he wrote a book called Ecumenical Jihad. I heard John MacArthur preach on this topic and did a little research. You can read about this book on Amazon. Here is a comment that someone left who has read the book:

“There is one portion of this book that is truly bizarre. Mr. Kreeft claims to have had an out of body experience while surfing in Hawaii. During this experience, he “soul-surfed” and landed on a “Heavenly beach.” [p. 86] There, he met and spoke with Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed, and Moses. In the afterlife, all have become pious Roman Catholics. Nonetheless, Mohamed still teaches (and Kreeft appears to agree) that the Koran is “divine revelation.” [pp. 103-4] This stuff goes on for twenty-five pages. Mr. Kreeft purports that his recounting of this ecumenical beach party is in some sense “true.” [p. 86] ”

So it is not surprising to me that now he imagines something about sex in heaven. His “theology” is his own imagination.

By: Mark Overstreet » Sex and Alcohol discussed around SBC

Mark Overstreet » Sex and Alcohol discussed around SBC — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:22:04 +0000

[...] Also, over at SEBTS, Dr. Danny Akin, who has written on sexuality before, recently invited Peter Kreeft, Thomist philosopher and theologian, to speak at their recent 20/20 conference on campus. Special thanks to Denny Burk, who brought his lectures to light in the faculty lounge, which made for great discussion among the theologues of the third floor. [...]

By: Wonders for Oyarsa

Wonders for Oyarsa — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:05:35 +0000

“Earth is the breeding colony; Heaven is the homeland.”

Ugh…