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body are both encased in a single sheet of clothing called the flesh!
For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:30-32
When the coming together of the husband and the wife, the head and the body takes place, there is a fusion of the two at the neck that makes for a seamless connection. When we observe the connection between our body, beginning from the neck down and our head, we observe that it is seamless. The head cannot easily be removed from the body and vice-versa. In fact, an attempt to separate the head from the body at the neck has to be very violent and gruesome in nature to succeed! That is because the fusion is seamless, strong and also covered by a single continuous sheet of flesh!
This is how God sees the husband and wife relationship. When the husband and wife come together, they fuse into one wholesome, continuous body that with a single, continuous and seamless sheet of flesh covering it. They become one whole body,
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