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One Flesh, Two Persons

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Michael Foster
Mar 22, 2025
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It’s important to emphasize both oneness and otherness in marriage. You can’t have real union without real distinction. A marriage isn’t the melting of two people into some sentimental goo. That’s not covenant, that’s codependency with wedding rings.

Genesis 2:24 says, “And they shall become one flesh.”

And they do. In sex, in shared mission, in raising c…

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