QUESTION: My brother is a Jehovah’s Witness who says that Mark 12:25 is applicable only to the people who were there at that time. Is this true?

ANSWER: No! Your brother is attempting to avoid the truth in favor of a foolish man-made doctrine developed by an irrational religious cult! He is in reality saying that God is a respecter of persons (Acts 10:34); that God will prohibit some from having wives in heaven, but He is going to allow the Jehovah’s witnesses to keep their wives! This is absurd! Jesus is speaking of the general resurrection of the dead (vs.23; John 5:28-29); of all the dead! As relates to marriage, all that rise will be “as the angels, which are in heaven.” Since the angels “neither marry, nor are given in marriage,” such will be the case with all that rise!