Matthew 19: 4 - 6 Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning "made them male and female", and said, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh"? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.
This passage is taken from Matthew 19: 4 -6, from its location, we know that this was spoken by Jesus late in his earthly ministry. This is God's words, and Jesus (Being God) has the authority to speak on God's behalf. This passage is pretty straight forward, and spells out exactly what God had intended. Marriage should be between a man and a woman, singular, the two are joined together to make one flesh. When a pair are joined into one flesh, they soften each other making one complete person. If you have looked at married couples that have lived together for 20-30 years. they start to look alike. At fifty years together they really look alike. This is not a fluke but by design. The last part of this passage "Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate", this is said stronger in the King James version; it uses the word cleave for joined together. Some people think of a meat cleaver when they see this word "cleave", that is one definition, but the correct definition is cleaved with such force the two become one. Blacksmithing has a name for this they call it forge welding. You take two different materials and heat them and thrust them together with such force that they become one. With Humans this is done without heat and without the large amount of pounding the blacksmithing way requires. This is a very strong weld. Marriages made under God are supposed to be this strong as well. Unfortunately divorce rates are as large in Church families as in non-church families. We are becoming like the people of Jesus' day in this respect.
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