THEY SHALL BE ONE FLESH

 THEY SHALL BE ONE FLESH

“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” Genesis 2:21-25. God has now completed his creation, and is prepared for the replenishing of the earth. God has told this created couple, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” Genesis 1:28. In the beginning of the Bible, we have the union of man and woman.  The woman is declared to be the wife. Jesus referred to the creation of God when he answered the question posed by the Pharisees, “Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?” Matthew 19:3. The answer of Jesus was, “Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?” Matthew 19:4-5. In the creation, God created male and female and brought them together in the marriage union. This is God’s divine law for only in the marriage of a male and a female can the birth of children take place. The purpose of marriage was to bear children. The words of the apostle Paul to Timothy are “I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.” I Timothy 5:14. Both man and woman have a divinely appointed role in the union of marriage. Man married to a man and a woman married to a woman cannot fulfill this God sanctioned purpose. A union other than male and female is a gross transgression of the law of God, and will be judged severely by the Creator God. When a male and a female join themselves together in marriage, they become one flesh.