What is Heaven?

Is the Orthodox Christian view of heaven different to other denominations? do they all share the same view regarding the issue you just commented on?

We are all at andropause and menopause or just androgines?

No, we just don't care about sex anymore, it's no longer important. I'm sure you have moments in your life where you aren't thinking about sex. It's like that, it "slips our mind" to even think about it.

Angels seem not to be of a gender. Everybody will turn into angels?

Most certainly not, angels lack gender because they do not have physical bodies as we do. When humans die we remain as humans.

Perfected body=what?

A perfected body is a body free from the contamination of sin, sickness and decay.

But if all our relatives are in heaven, what happens to wifes and husbands? does love exist there according to theology?

Love is all that exists in heaven. There is no portion of heaven that is lacking in that emotion. However there is no sexual actions. Husbands and wives remain together because they are pleased by each others company, and having shared so much in common on earth they have a stronger bond in heaven.

Is the Orthodox Christian view of heaven different to other denominations?

Um....Akolouthos could answer that although from what he implied in his reply to my post, I'd assume that Catholics and Orthodox Christians share a common view on heaven.

Also for future reference for all when I refer to orthodox (lower case o) I'm referring to churches in a sense of being "not heterodox". Or for the most part the denominations of christianity that the vast majority of those who call themselves christian practice. So Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists, Presbyterians, most Baptists, etc. would be considered orthodox. But groups such as Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Quakers would not.

A brief outline of the Islamic interpretation of heaven.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jannah

Originally posted by Adalwolf Well in Heaven, if it were truly heaven, there would be beer, liquor, women, feasting, boasting, singing, fighting... ...err wait, I'm thinking of Valhalla. In heaven you sit around listening to harps and choir music all day, or so I've been told.

Doesn't Valhalla sound soooooo much better than any opera house in the sky?

Is the reason for no marriage existing or sex in heaven that sex has been percieved as "depravity" if done for pleasure by the church?

No of course not sex is a natural function of the human body and is not depraved at all. Sex is pleasurable because God wants us to have sex so that we can build families.

There is no sex in heaven for the same reason we no longer breathe or eat or sleep in heaven. These are urges that our natural bodies need to maintain and create life. In heaven God maintains your life directly so we have no desire to eat or sleep or breathe, the same applies to sex.

Could you have sex in heaven? I suppose one could the same way that a grown man could suck on a pacifier and wear diapers. However we would consider that inappropriate as we have grown out of that stage of our life. The same thing with sex in heaven, we have just grown out of the stage where we care about sex.