This is a pretty good implication
And I agree. That does not mean they do not procreate. That means they don't marry...
This is a pretty good implication
[roamer_1:]And I agree. That does not mean they do not procreate. That means they don't marry...
It does no such thing - Fornication depends upon marriage, not the other way around... If there is no marriage, there can be no fornication, as fornication is the breaking of marriage... What is implied is an wholly different paradigm... One which we have no ability to discern without more information.
Secondly, marriage is a picture of Yeshua and his Assembly - When that has met fulfillment, the image is no longer necessary.
Thirdly, marriage, by it's very nature, is broken by death - How would that work with eternal beings?
Neither am I advocating for copulation, or envisioning what that means in the spiritual realm... As it is of a different paradigm, my knowledge is no better than yours. But I will assert that what most Christians think about this stuff is born of extrapolation, and is without foundation in the Bible. What the Bible actually says is that there will be no marriage in the Kingdom, and that, in that aspect, we will be 'like the angels'. Since we have no idea what it means to be 'like the angels', there is little frame of reference:
We know that male angels have seed... and little else... Even the concept that angels 'married' humans in Gen 6 is an interpretation - My Hebrew friends translate that much differently, to denote a sense of taking and raping... Not the benign bonds the English language lends to the tale... But what I am pointing out is that angels DO have seed, and seed has purpose. And that purpose confounds the traditional Christian view.
We do know that YHWH has a special love of family, and of children, and a respect for elders and patriarchy/matriarchy - All of these principle things perish without marriage - To presume these things to be of no value in the Kingdom (or absent therefrom) is an astonishing leap to make from a solitary verse. Rather, I will take the view that such things reside within a different paradigm within the House of YHWH... A House in and of itself presumes family, children, continuity of elders, continuity of eldresses... How it works is beyond my ken (and everyone elses), but in my mind, is the safer speculation.