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Originally Posted by Guest 1
In Post #173 I questioned your statement
“We are part of Christ in the same type of way spouses are part of each other.”
I asked you to provide a couple of NT verse references to support your statement. This has nothing to do with “proving a negative” or my being required to support WL’s extreme views. You have given us this statement and I would like to know where you get this from. A simple request.
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The Lord is our husband, and in this relationship we are one spirit with Him. The husband and wife on earth in like manner become one flesh. 1 Cor 6:16-17 indicates a parallel between these two types of joinings.
However, even though we become "one flesh" we know from experience that one spouse's body does not literally become the other spouse's body. One can die and the other live, for example. So the expression cannot be literal.
So we know that "one flesh" is talking about something different than actually becoming one another's body. It is clearly talking about intimacy in relationship. So we can surmise that "one spirit" means something in the same way, because 1 Cor 6:16-17 draws a parallel between them. We don't actually become the same Spirit as the Lord. But we become "one" because of the intense intimacy.
To say we actually become the same Spirit literally is actually to miss the whole point of the intimate relationship. We are not absorbed into God to "become God." He remains God and we remain us. Yet we are one. That is much more profound than "becoming God." Again it's about relationship, not about becoming God.