Speaking of verses sayings things (Happy Mother's Day BTW) didja ever notice that Genesis 2:24 says:
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Didja ever wonder WHAT 'father and mother'??
A&E surely had none; so WHAT is this phase DOING there; in a CREATION story??
Like Tevya; I'll tell ya!
We find the verse referenced by Paul; in his letter to the Ephesians, chapter 5...
31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
God lays some foundation stones really early...
I think the verse refers to the fact that Adam and Eve set the pattern that all men and women were to emulate in the future. The verse isn’t referring to a non existent mom and dad of Adam and Eve(unless some one wants to try to posit the leaving of the garden as that of leaving the parents...I “ain’t going there) per se. They were the first couple joined together to be “one flesh” and after that all future couples would follow that pattern. The important part of that verse wasn’t the leaving of the parents per se;(though one would hope the couple would leave and not try to move in and take the son’s smelly socks with him and her various skin creams with her)...it was the leaving for the sake becoming one flesh with your spouse. As Adam was one flesh with Eve, so it was expected that all future marriage mind males become one flesh with their wives. That’s all....the colloquial custom Moses speaks of that the Hebrews practiced; was that an offspring leaves and forms his own family separate from the direct influence of his parents. Other cultures due to tradition or poverty may have couples and parents living in fair close proximity to one another if not with each other for periods of time. The verse speaks of men entering a close relationship with a woman while beginning to distance themselves from the parental /child love and protective bonds and their subjection to their parents’ authority. In that sense do they “leave” their parents!
Any attempts to equate such “leaving of parents” with Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the garden would be a misdirection of the verse’s meaning. God never intended men and women to fall out of fellowship with him. He never intended that men should “leave the garden” but to grow and mature as a species under his guidance, to fully self actualize as a race living as matter and spirit.
A man can’t be united in a way that a man needs to be with someone; that is, with his parents. The parents are a completed “one flesh”(”three’s a crowd”)...a man needs a woman so that he can be a completed “one flesh” with his own wife. THAT is the reason WHY..”a man leaves his parents and is united with his wife, and they become one flesh.