If God designs sex for marriage, and there is no giving in marriage in Heaven, then there is also no sex. Others deny that latter point. But it at least seems possible that there won’t be sex in Heaven, even if that being the case isn’t entirely clear. But that inevitably leads to the question, how can it be Heaven without sex? How can something that most people enjoy, and that even God himself calls a good gift, not be in that place?  

Growing up, I used to hate coffee. I thought it was nasty, bitter and altogether unpleasant. So I never drank it. Fast forward 20 years, I love it now.

As a child, I remember my Dad often wanting to watch the news. It was usually greeted by a chorus of, ‘that’s boring!’ I can’t remember what it was that we would rather watch but I do remember it definitely wasn’t that! But by the time I was in my teens, I was watching the news along with my Dad. And by the time I got to university, I was studying History & Politics, the latter nigh on demanding you watch it each day and read several newspapers to boot.

I am sure you can think of similar sorts of things. Stuff that you used to hate or have no interest in whatsoever that you later came to love. For lots of people it’s stuff like sprouts that their parents made them eat as children. But whatever the specific things are for you, we can all see over time how our tastes change. What we loved as children we may not care for anymore. What we had no interest in as kids we can’t get enough of now.

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