From: Sondra Brasile (sbrasile@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 11:14:45 EDT
Richard,
It wasn't a question and I wasn't making a "statement". The sigh at the end
was to denote nostalgia, I was waxing sentimental. Sorry, I couldn't contain
it; I'm a mother 4 times over, I routinely marvel at them, the older they
get the more wonderful they are.
I'm not very good with my indicators I guess, I have to be more specific,
but thanks for the response anyway ;).
Sondra
>From: <richard@biblewheel.com>
>To: <asa@calvin.edu>
>Subject: Re: Sin?
>Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:20:23 -0700
>
>Hi Sondra, In post http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200307/0547.html you
>wrote
>
> >But what a representation of that verse "the two shall become one" in the
> >forming of offspring, the mingling of two persons (in every sense) to
>become
> >a totally new, unique and seperate being. <sigh>
>
>I answered that in this post
>http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200307/0528.html. I quote:
>
> >Going back to the origin of sex in Genesis 2 we read:
>
> >Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave
>unto
> >his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
> >Procreation is prominent here only because of its *absence* - unless you
> >want the "one flesh" to mean the child that results from the union, but
>that
> >can't be correct because the Bible says that the two become "one flesh"
> >after sex, whether or not a child is produced (cf. 1 Cor 6.16).
>
>
>Elaborating, we read I Cor 6.16, which states:
>
>What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for
>two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
>
>It seems clear that Scripture presents heterosexual intercourse as
>identitical to becoming one flesh, regardless of whether a child results or
>not.
>
>But this doesn't mean that God didn't intend a beautiful and illustrative
>double entendre, so characteristic of His excellent Word.
>
>Richard Amiel McGough.
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