becoming one flesh according to the bible.?

Question

how is it possible to become one flesh meaning; male and female as the bible says.

Answer 1

The term “one flesh” means that even as your body is one “whole” and cannot be divided into pieces and still be a “whole,” so this is how God intended it to be with the marriage relationship. There are no longer two entities (two individuals), but now there is one entity (a married couple). There are a number of aspects to this new union.



In terms of the duration of their union: Jesus states that it has always been God’s intention for a married couple to remain one unit until death parts them (Matthew 19:6). When divorce occurs contrary to God’s plan, you do not have two “wholes” but rather two halves that have been ripped apart, and remarriage becomes a form of adultery.



As far as emotional attachments are concerned, the new unit takes precedence over all previous and future relationships (Genesis 2:24a). Some marriage partners continue to place greater weight upon ties with parents than with their new partner...this is a recipe for disaster in the marriage and is a perversion of God’s original intention of “leaving and cleaving.” A similar problem can develop when a spouse begins to draw closer to a child to meet emotional needs rather than to the other partner.



Emotionally, spiritually, intellectually, financially, and in every other way, the couple is to become one (and even as one part of the body cares for the other body parts (the stomach digests food for the body, the brain directs the body for the good of the whole, the hands work for the sake of the body, etc.)), so each partner of the marriage is to show like care for the other and for the family as a whole. Each partner is no longer to see money earned as “my” money but now as the “family’s” money. And one’s pursuit is not to be what I want to do with my time and my money, but is to be what I need to do for the sake of my spouse and family. Ephesians 5:22-33 and Proverbs 31:10-31 give the application of this “oneness” to the role of the husband and to the wife respectively.



Physically: They become one flesh and the result of that one flesh would be found in the children that their union produces, these children now containing genetic make up as a result of the union. And even in the sexual aspect of their relationship, they are not to consider their bodies as their own but as belonging to their partner (1 Corinthians 7:3-5). Nor are they to focus on their own pleasure but rather the giving of pleasure to their spouse.

Answer 2

It is a spiritual as well as natural oneness. In other words, when two people become intimate God sees them as one unit. It is a tie in the soul that God created in all of us and no matter how much we try to make up our own rules we can't dissolve this decree of God. As for the natural aspect, that can be seen in how babies are a result of the coming together of the flesh of a woman and man. It can also be seen in how disease is transferred in sexual contact (disease free flesh becoming the same as diseased flesh).

Answer 3

Two people, a man and a woman, become one flesh by having a child, whose flesh (body) is neither the mother's flesh nor the father's flesh, yet is a combination of the two.

Answer 4

it's a hold over from other pagan teachings, likely the Jewish Kabalah

see also very rarely do you see anything about a marraige or any rituals or commandements about marraige, more of just "taking" then women agreeing to accept a man's attempts to woo her

it goes back to the Lord the the Lady teachings of a god being both male and female yet "one" god

see also pantheist teachings on a trinity, much like egyptian's trinitarian gods and a savior type son

Answer 5

how's it possible to walk on water, build an arc to house all living species of living things, procreate eve from adam, hear a voice from the sky, virgin birth, rise from the dead, multiply fish, turn water into wine?
And 2 becoming one flesh is the only thing you find unbelievable?

Answer 6

theres no certain way to do it. its a spirtual bond that unites flesh with god. for god is the all of the universe being divided by male and female forces. the becoming of one flesh is a metaphor of the uniting of male and female forces so you can produce life which is in mimicing of being god itself, the ability to produce life

Answer 7

Every marriage when it is successful takes on its own personality. Have you never heard the phrase "my better half"?

Answer 8

Fusion.

Answer 9

it's nonsense.

especially given the divorce rate among christians.

but they ignore the divorce tenets. and shriek about the gay ones!!

Answer 10

Jesus says " the father and I are one" One purpose....unified