{"id":308,"date":"2005-11-17T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=308"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"one-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/11\/17\/one-life\/","title":{"rendered":"One Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
Genesis 2:24 states that “a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” I have often thought about this, particularly the last part of the verse.<\/p>\n
The term “one flesh” seems to have received the meaning that what was once the husband’s life and the wife’s life has come together and been replaced with a joint, common life.<\/p>\n
So I am left to wonder then if statements like “we are so glad this baby has come into our life [as opposed to lives]” or “we are happy with our life [as opposed to lives] together” are accurate.<\/p>\n
Does a man and a woman both give up their individual lives in an effort to build a common life? If so, how does a common life look and operate?<\/p>\n
Genesis 2:24 states that “a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they … Continue reading One Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n