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You don't have it wrong. The Orthodox Christian Holy Matrimony rite does not have any "til death do us part" idea in it. Orthodox clerics, for example, can be married only once, even if their wives pass on, because the ideal is that the marriage bond is eternal, and additional marriages detract from that.
There are no husbands and wives in heaven. The Bible specifically says that the death of one spouse allows the surviving spouse to remarry. Some may wish to remain single, that is a perfectly acceptable also. Marriage is something natural, for this lifetime. The next realm is spiritual and natural principles no longer apply.
Jesus Christ of Nazareth did say there will be "no marriage and no given in marriage" in the New Jerusalem. Not quite sure how all that will look like though.
That sounds a little closer to Eastern faiths than Christianity. Revelation doesn't describe anything like merging with God himself - rather that we will be with him, he will be our God, and we will be his people. The distinction between him and us is preserved (and from what Jesus revealed in the Gospels about Heavenly rewards and inheritence, we can infer that the distinction between each soul in Heaven is preserved as well).Thanks people, yes Jesus said there'd be no marriage in heaven and that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God which indicates we become "spirit beings" there-
"In the twinkling of an eye the dead shall be raised imperishable and we shall be changed" (1 Cor 15:52), but he also said to his disciples at the last supper that he won't be drinking wine with them again until they meet in heaven which suggests we will meet our loved ones there, not parted by death.
My interpretation rightly or wrongly is that heaven is therefore a "soul pool" where our souls all merge into God and Jesus and our loved ones, just as raindrops falling into a lake become one lake, no more individuality, no more loneliness..
No, they are not. The passage is being misinterpreted to mean something that it doesn't. Orthodox Christian Marriage Tradition has never taught that the Matrimonial bond between a faithful husband and wife is dissolved by death. That is an erroneous teaching that developed outside of the Orthodox Church.
