"Here's what I have so far.
Two becoming one is a mystery in the same way as the marriage of Christ and the Church according to Ephesians 5. It certainly involves the sexual union but it is so much more than that. One flesh cannot go in different directions in life—it must go together.
I've seen those two headed snakes before—the ones that can both flick their tongues—some can even both eat. You can tell that at times each head has its own thoughts about where to go or what to do and ordinarily they snakes would part ways, but in the end—they both go the same direction—to try and split them apart would be to kill the whole.
This is not to downplay sex as a part of oneness. The sexual union is vitally important to this oneness. Sex involves vulnerability and openness. For example, I cannot fathom how a married couple can engage in sex and it be intimate and pleasurable when there is anger, bitterness and unforgiveness. When people are capable of that, they see the other merely as an object to fulfill a momentary desire and not a true partner in life.
When I think of Genesis and why God made the woman in the first place, I consider that Adam wasn't really alone. God was frequently with him in the Garden. Even so God made woman, made Eve and immediately made the two "one flesh". She was to be his help-mate or life preserver, the one who guards and protects him, but also one whom Adam was to guard and protect. Relationship is inherent in God's nature and this sense of separateness is not what He wants for us or with us.
That's a key—eventually, we are supposed to be one with Him. Marriage is supposed to give us a sense of what that will be like. But since we have been corrupted and broken in the Fall, even our best attempts fall short of what it can and should be."
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