“
the LORD God made a woman . . . ..
The man said,
"This
is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,'
. . . . a
man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will
become one flesh.
The
man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame."
Genesis 2:20-25
Now
we learn more about God and ourselves.
Having read through the Bible and looking back we will have learned that
God is three in one, a trinity, three but inextricably one.
I drew this for you below on the left.
On the right is how marriage mirrors God.
With no intention that one circle on either side is analogous to its
corresponding circle on
the other side, one can see the Trinitarian nature of marriage, the three
in one image of God.
I
can’t see any other way to understand this other than that intrinsic to
oneness is commitment, forever commitment, emotional oneness, physical oneness,
oneness of purpose, intellectual oneness, the kind of oneness that has at least
anatomical potential for procreation, with the potential for children and then
child rearing, which is where the generations human beings are to be protected,
raised, taught, modeled for, socialized and trained into God’s way of living,
and in the process shape all of society.
Whew!!!!
Big implications from a
little a verse!!??
Yes, I think so.
I also conclude that such implications are valid.
This really is a Big Deal . . . shortly after God said "Let Us make man in our image ... male and female He created them" He also said "be fruitful and multiply". Gen 5:3 indicates that this "image of God" was transferred from Adam to his son Seth ... the point being that mankind is supposed to be fruitful and pass the "image of God" down through all generations. Clearly this can only be done Biblically by man joining his wife and becoming one.
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