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Beautiful rendition of spiritual oneness on a subject.. that post..
A lovely display of spiritual physics... deep calling to deeper logic..

One more thing..
About the verse(s) that posits that a man shall become one flesh with his wife.. in marriage.. One wonders if that is a metaphor referring to the Husband(Groom) and the Bride of Christ(wife).. The Husband being Gods Spirit(s) and the bride being the spirits of certain humans(church).. implied also in the last several chapters of revelation.. For the spiritual city is itself spirits not stuctures... God and man becoming one spirit like a husband and wife becoming one flesh.. Talk about harmony and oneness..

That is beyond anthropomorphiziation.. I think..
Spirits; with no need of shelter and all the other things physical bodies require for comfort and sensual delight or pain..

The Bible could be read with an anthropomorphizing attitude or read de-anthropomorphized.. two different books I think.. This is quite a subject.. Us being two Children of God playing in the Universal sandbox.. (( HUG ))... Betcha spirits have no need of gender either, why would they?.. Gender served a purpose on earth but not needed Universally, I think.. Gender could be the ultimate anthropomorphosis.. Ya.. think?..

Thank you so much for sharing your musings and insights!

On the first one:

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. – Ephesians 5:28-32

And on the second one:

Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. – Matt 22:28-32

I love the Scriptures! They hide Truth in plain sight. One can know them like the back of his hand and yet have no understanding if he doesn’t also know the power of God.

The parables and metaphors are excellent examples:

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and should understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

But blessed [are] your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. – Matthew 13:10-16

Again, all of those people were physically hearing the parables – the pressure waves, the sound waves, were registering in their ears – but they were not spiritually hearing them. They could not understand. They did not know the power of God.

But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: - John 10:26-27