[CCWoody]

As for your contention that you may accuse me of putting words in God's mouth, I am AMAZED that people will make life and death (eternal )decisions without reading, without KNOWING what Christ said.

I guess with your reading this way, you are also saying that Jesus is an angel as well because Matthew 22 must be consistent with this verse:

Beloved, now we are the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.

However, we know that Jesus is not an angel, but God:

And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks One like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the breast with a golden girdle. His head and His hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were as a flame of fire; and His feet like unto fine brass, as though they burned in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters. And He had in His right hand seven stars, and out of His mouth went a sharp twoedged sword, and His countenance shone as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not; I am the First and the Last. I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of hell and of death.

Could it be that Matthew is only saying that like the angels, we will neither marry nor be given in marriage...

P.S. I'm amazed that anybody could be a RC after reading the Bible.

[Moby Grape]

I think, for the most part, we have agreement. When Christ says that we will be like the angels, I do not wish to put more to the words than they are on the page. I take it to mean that we will be LIKE the angels. However, it could resonablly be interpreted to mean that the there will be no marriage in heaven...that the angels do not have mates in heaven....I think my reading is supported when you consider the question that was asked...."who will this woman belong to as she was the wife of 7 brothers."....The answer was that she will be the wife of none...but "we will be like the angels."....Of course, the MAIN point was how at odds this word from Christ was from what Mohammed was telling his followers......Thanks for a thoughtful exchange...you present your perspectives very well.