Is earthly marriage important?translated

Reader question:

Hello. The Scripture says that in the resurrection they do not marry or enter into marriage. It turns out that earthly marriage completely loses its value? Even if we judge from the Scriptures that happiness does not lie in earthly things.

Anton

Priest's answer:

Priest Evgeniy CHEBYKIN

Hello, Anton.

Let's remember under what circumstances this principle was formulated:

“That day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him: Teacher! Moses said: “If someone dies without having children, then let his brother take his wife and restore seed to his brother”; We had seven brothers; the first, having married, died and, having no children, left his wife to his brother; likewise the second and the third, even to the seventh; after all, the wife also died; So, in the resurrection, which of the seven will she be the wife of? for everyone had it. Jesus answered and said to them: You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God, for in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but remain as the angels of God in heaven. And regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you: “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob”? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. And when the people heard it, they marveled at the teaching...