I can't imagine that it feels great to hear Jesus Christ look at you and say 'you are quite wrong'. But we need that sometimes, because we are. We come at things from the wrong angle -- the Sadducees are trying to trap Jesus, trying to force him to debate them on their premise, so that they can shrink God down into something they can wrap their minds around, but Jesus is having none of it. Jesus isn't focused on the technical question of how many angels fit on the head of a pin -- he's trying to direct our eyes to the glory of God, to the wonders of heaven, and to the community to which we are committed. If we spend our time lost in debate on the minutiae, we miss the bigger picture. When we start with the bigger picture, when we start with the immensity of the divine mystery and root ourselves in God's love for us, then, and only then, can we move into questions about the details, but always with an air of humility. We don't know the full answers to every question about heaven -- we can ask them, but only when we come with humility, when we come with grace, when we come with the spirit of trusting God that all will be dealt with in love and grace. It's ok to not get answers, as long as we let worship drive us and lead us.
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