What Did God Say?
23 And Adam said:
“This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh; “Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh” is a Hebrew idiom(expression) meaning, “exact counterpart.”
She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
(The Hebrew word for man is Ish; the word for woman is Isha… (In other words)... In this first marriage ???... Eve was given Adam’s name…
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
True one-ness... (true unity) is based on two requirements:
- Leaving…. Leaving Mom and Dad is not a problem for most of us…
But…. It’s all too easy to invest time and energy into relationships outside of marriage… That’s why Paul says, “If any woman has a question, let her ask her husband”... (1 Corinthians 14:35)...
- Cleaving... Although the world doesn’t understand this, the Bible tells us that physical intimacy is more than simply two bodies coming together... It’s two souls being made one (see Proverbs 6:32).
… That’s why we are not to defraud our partner (see 1 Corinthians 7:5).
… In the very first marriage seminar ever given, held in the Garden of Eden, God told Adam and Eve “to leave and cleave to one another”...