He did. Ephesians 5:29-31 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: [30] For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. [31] For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 6:15-17 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. [16] What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. [17] But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
Do a husband and wife become one flesh? So it is .... “he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.”
I was hoping for an answer like this from Prayer Warrior. Jesus did obey the commandment to be fruitful and multiply. In one way, some become his bride too. In another way, we are born in his image and likeness, conformed to his image. Thus we learn that the commandment given to Adam and Eve was not a carnal one. Two sinners having sex and making a baby is not keeping that commandment.
you said: “First he says there is neither male nor female”...then hear what the Spirit says where there is neither male nor female. . “he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” One spirit: Neither male nor female but a body tempered together in submission to the Head. Christ. Then “IF” they continue in Faith and Charity and Holiness being sober minded are ALL fruit of the Spirit. the child bearing is children born unto God...the promise children given of God that are brought forth unto the kingdom of God, increasing, multiplying and are fruitful joined unto one Spirit.
Agreed again. I believe a married couple faithful to God can be blessed with special children. Ishmael could not be the child of promise although he was Abraham's child after the flesh. God thus referred to Isaac as "your only son" when talking to Abraham about him.
I believe that after the fall and prior to Jesus, spiritual reproduction and physical reproduction were tied together. The only way to pass on the "image and likeness" was when a man and woman were having physical sex. That changed when the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary. A new way of transmitting the proper image and likeness was established. And Jesus can also overshadow any of us to correct us, to give us the correct image and likeness -- spiritually of course. It doesn't matter if we are physically male or female. Such things are irrelevant.
Thus what we perceive as a man physically can play the part of the "Bride of Christ." If that sounds gay to some people, they should stop thinking in carnal terms. I also believe if what we perceive as a woman physically becomes spiritually correct, "she" can be called a "son of God." I understand people's concerns; but I also believe it's possible to put too much emphasis on the physical sex of people.
I note that Isaac was not conceived until after Abram picked up the feminine "h" to become Abraham; and although we are not told explicitly Sarah also perfected herself, we see her name changed too. They were perfected people sexually, neither male nor female spiritually. How Sarah became perfected this way is also shown by how she manipulated Abraham before by giving him bad advice -- the "fallen woman" controlling the "fallen man." After both were perfected, God told Abraham to obey whatever she said to do. That tells me she stopped being a "woman" spiritually but was both.
If you ask me, the value of a heterosexual marriage is that the "man" can pick up something of the feminine from his wife, and the "wife" can pick up something of the masculine from him. This can be done during sex if the two do indeed become one spiritually, "knowing" one another. If it's sex without the proper spiritual goal of the two becoming one spiritually, then it's just sex of the sort Abraham had with Hagar.
If a man treats his wife like a sex object to be used solely to gratify his lust, that is as much of a sin in my book as having sex with another man. Indeed he may be damaging his wife. It might be better for him to have sex with other men motivated solely by lust. That way their lust would damage only each other -- or as Paul put it, "receiving in themselves that recompence of their error."
Romans 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
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