Do Not Spiritualize the Marriage. - Introduction

[Ahila Wilson]

thank you for the response, I am sure we will not loss our identity in the resurrected body, but not sure of the significance of our marriage in eternity! as you mentioned, if its all the relationship then what is so special about marriage, that is the point of my post.

 

[GreekOrthodox]

However, in Eastern theology, the mystery of marriage is “A great mystery is being celebrated. How is it a mystery? They come together, and the two are made one. They have not become the image of anything earthly, but of God Himself. They come in order to be made one body; behold the mystery of love!” (St. John Chrysostom, Homily 12 on Colossians).

The married couple are the icons of the marriage of God and Israel, Christ and the church and as such, we have no "til death do us part" in the ceremony. In fact, early on, the bride and groom simply took communion together and that was the wedding. They partook of the Holiest Mystery of the Eucharist. The couple was married on the footstep between heaven and earth, with the Body and Blood of Christ as their first meal.

Fr. John Meyerdorff writes.
The Byzantine theological, liturgical, and canonical tradition unanimously stresses the absolute uniqueness of Christian marriage, and bases this emphasis upon the teaching of Ephesians 5. As a sacrament, or mysterion, marriage reflects the union between Christ and the Church, between Yahweh and Israel, and as such can be only one—an eternal bond, which death itself does not destroy. In its sacramental nature, marriage transfigures and transcends both fleshly union and contractual legal association: human love is being projected into the eternal Kingdom of God.

 

[joshua 1 9]

Well in a Christ like marriage the two are brought together as one yolk. So there's a little more going on here than we common man can explain.M-Bob

God made male and female and then He joins male and female back together as one. The one becomes two and then the two becomes one. We need to have peace between the male and female aspects of ourselves. Men want to be women and women want to become men and that is nonsense. They need to be at unity and peace with themselves and not divided like that.

My wife came into the marriage with male and female ideas because that is the way it was with her brothers. But that did not last long. What needs to be done gets done by whoever is there to do it and we do not divide things into male and female.