Uma só carne
O conceito de 'uma só carne' é o fundamento bíblico do casamento. Desde a criação, Deus uniu homem e mulher em uma aliança indissolúvel de amor, compromisso e intimidade.
A instituição divina do casamento
Deus criou o homem e a mulher e os uniu em aliança. O casamento é obra de Deus, e o que Ele juntou não separe o ser humano.
Therefore the Lord God sent sleep into Adam, and when he slept, God took one of his ribs, and filled flesh for it.
And the Lord God builded the rib which he had taken from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.
And Adam said, This is now a bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; this shall be called virago, for she is taken of man.
Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that a man be alone; make we to him an helper like to himself.
And God made of nought a man to his image and likeness; God made of nought a man, to the image of God; God made of nought them, male and female.
Which answered, and said to them, have ye not read, for he that made men at the beginning, made them male and female?
And he said, for this thing a man shall leave father and mother, and he shall draw [or cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
And so they be not now twain, but one flesh. Therefore man separate [or part] not that thing that God hath joined, [or knit together].
But from the beginning of creature, God made them male and female;
and said, For this thing a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall draw [or cleave] to his wife,
and they shall be twain in one flesh. And so now they be not twain, but one flesh.
Therefore that thing that God hath joined together, no man separate [or part].
O mistério da união
Paulo ensina que a união conjugal é um grande mistério que aponta para Cristo e a Igreja. A intimidade reflete a comunhão espiritual plena.
So and men shall love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself;
for no man hated ever his own flesh, but nourisheth and fostereth it, as Christ doeth the church.
And we be members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this thing a man shall forsake his father and mother, and he shall draw [or he shall cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
This sacrament is great; yea, I say in Christ, and in the church.
Nevertheless ye all, each man love his wife as himself; and the wife dread her husband.
Know ye not, that your bodies be members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and shall I make them the members of a whore? God forbid.
Whether ye know not, that he that cleaveth to a whore, is made one body? For he saith, There shall be twain in one flesh.
And he that cleaveth to the Lord, is one Spirit.
Whether one made not, and the residue of spirit is his? and what seeketh one, no but the seed of God? Therefore keep ye your spirit, and do not thou despise the wife of thy youth;
Fidelidade e alegria
A aliança conjugal exige fidelidade, respeito e dedicação mútua. A Bíblia celebra a alegria da intimidade dentro do casamento.
Thy vein be blessed; and be thou glad with the woman of thy young waxing age.
An hind most dearworthy; and an hart calf most acceptable. Her teats fill thee in all time; and delight thou continually in the love of her.
My son, why art thou deceived of an alien woman; and art fostered in the bosom of another?
And upon all these things have ye charity, that is the bond of perfectness [or of perfection].
And the peace of Christ enjoy in your hearts, in which ye be called in one body, and be ye kind.
For which thing put ye away leasing, and speak ye truth each man with his neighbour, for we be members each to other [or together].
