Originally posted by: Jumpem
Honestly, I'm not sure what my Grandpa would have thought about it all. I was twelve when he died and I hadn't talked to him much about serious subjects.
As for the "til death do us part" portion. I believe that means you part physically for now. I believe in heaven and hell. So i'm prone to believe that in time you will be reunited with your spouse. So to me it is forever.
What religion do you subscribe to? Christianity makes it pretty clear that marriage is purely an earthly institution.
1 Corinthians 7:39 "A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord."
Also, Matthew 22:23-33
23That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24"Teacher," they said, "Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for him. 25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27Finally, the woman died. 28Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?"
29Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 31But about the resurrection of the dead--have you not read what God said to you, 32'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'[1] ? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."
33When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.