If i might, your question seem to assume some things. The state requires a marriage license for a marriage to be civilly recognized and the state dictates who can perform valid marriages. The state accepts marriages performed by clergy as valid. So the license isnt required by God but it is for the state. If I remember correctly your OP mentioned marriage by a judge. That's valid according to the state but not by God.
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They are not married and the one flesh is a reference to the expected product of marriage, children.
I have a feeling the OP didn't get the answer that he wanted.
I was married once. She was pregnant with our 2nd child and so I figured out this is the time to get married but I was a 23 year old and not much money yet back then. I couldn't afford a wedding. So we got married by a justice of the peace downtown and it was legal, and the plan was save up and do the ceremony and party later, Worked out pretty good. I've heard of other couples doing the same thing. Her wedding ring started out as a $200 (overpriced) ring that was 1/10 of a carat. In other words, a diamond chip lol.
After we went in business and some time went by I had that ring upgraded seriously. It was worth waiting for.
Not wanting to cough up the 25 bucks for a marriage license is kind of lame, lol. The money does not matter. The goal is a marriage that is honorable by God. Geez he cancelled the bbq too. (Lol)
Well if you take off the western romanticized lens you will see what God is actually saying.
What is the expected product of marriage between an older couple who are beyond childbearing?
The point is one flesh is children, you know two DNA's combine and become one DNA, cause God knows what He is talking about.
You didn't answer my question about the expected 'product' of marriage between an older man and woman who will not be having any children.The point is one flesh is children, you know two DNA's combine and become one DNA, cause God knows what He is talking about.
The expected product of marriage in the eyes of God far encompasses just merely, for younger couples, having children. There is a lot of physical intimacy as well, also, together, with the grace of God, facing the challenges of day-to-day living.
I don't think children was the major reason for marriage.
God just simply said it was not good for Adam to be alone.
So He made Eve out Adam's rib and presented her to him.
The presentation was the marriage ceremony.
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So I see nowhere where I denied the bonding aspect of marriage, however the word is "shall.'
What you have is a cultural interpretation, what scripture states is in the case of Adam and Eve, they already were one flesh, then they became two flesh (she being his rib first and then her own), then they become one flesh again via the procreation of producing their descendants who are the combined flesh of both Adam and Eve.
Believe as you will ,but this is the historical-biblical understanding of "one flesh" and it has nothing to do with married couples who cannot conceive, but it is about protecting marriage as the proper place where from children should come.
Divorce cannot undo "one flesh" because one flesh are the children.
But couples can get divorced.