• jerkface@lemmy.ca
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    That humans eventually become angels.

    Though, there was one human who did, in an apocryphal book. And then was elevated yet again to being a second diety; there were apparently strains of Christianity which were DUOtheistic! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch

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      Matthew 20:30

      “At resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.”

      I think that’s where the sentiment comes from. It’s explicit in Mormonism (I think). In mainstream Christianity the saved don’t become angels, they become like angels.

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        … they become like angels.

        In the sense that they no longer have sexual or romantic urges, would be my reading of that passage. Angels have no belly buttons!