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Originally Posted by Guest 1
Your words were “the expression cannot be literal”. I responded that the expression was literal. The word used in the Bible is not figurative but literal. I also provided some scientific references to support it being literal and I used your analogy to show that it is literal.
I do not understand your use of the term “extreme literal interpretation”. Does that mean that all “literal” interpretations of “one flesh” are extreme, or is there an extreme variation of a literal interpretation?
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Guest 1,
As I recall, you pursued Igzy to give you verses to support what you quoted as from him: “We are part of Christ in the same type of way spouses are part of each other.” He gave you 1st Cor. 6:16–17, stating that the “one flesh” was not to be taken literally, since one spouse’s body does not literally become the other spouse’s body. You came back with a science discussion to try to show that husband and wife
literally become one flesh, referring to some kind of symbiotic relationship of the genetic material within a person’s body.
By the way, I do not plan to discuss science in detail but, rather, turn back to the Bible. It seems to me that you have made a similar mistake to the one that Cassidy made earlier. Remember Jane’s presentation about 1st Cor. 6:17 that showed that the “one spirit” there could not be a mingled spirit as Witness Lee taught? Well, the same reading applies to verse 16:
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. (16–17)
Jane wrote about 6:17 regarding the word “joined,” and pointed out that the Greek word for “joined” means “glued.” We are to be glued to the Lord and then we become one spirit. Contrary to the meaning of the Greek words in this verse, Mr. Lee said that we were a mingled spirit with the Lord, and, once mingled, could not be separated.
With the understanding that “joined” means “glued” (since it is the same Greek word in verse 16), I hope you can see that “one body” and “one flesh” in verse 16 should not be taken literally to mean that husband and wife become some new symbiotic, mingled entity. Instead, when a person is gluing himself to a harlot, that person is only becoming physically united with another person into what the Bible refers to as one body, one flesh.