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I’ve never heard of that concept.

And when you think about it, marriage can’t possibly reflect the Triune God. There’s no correlation between the parties to a marriage and the Persons of the Godhead. Indeed the very nature of the Trinity is sublime and Holy, beyond any measure which man, or woman, or man and woman, can ever conceive, let only attain.

By the way, our Jewish Freepers might hesitate to accept the premise that Moses intended as he wrote Genesis that his readers of any era would assume that Jesus was a party in a marriage between a man and a woman.

And why Jesus anyway? Why not the Holy Spirit? That would seem to make more sense if our goal was to somehow crowd one part of the Trinity into the marriage dyad.

ACTUALLY Jesus is God’s only Begotten. In God’s image did God make man AND woman.

“Let Us make them in Our image” I think is Scriptural. To Whom was God speaking? And what would Our image mean?

We are saved by accepting Christ as our Saviour and as (here's the difficult part for most of us) our LORD. Holy Spirit, our counsellor, infills us but without Christ Jesus as Our Lord, Holy Spirit is absent. Further, the Bible is all about Jesus. The OT points to Jesus. Over 300 OT prophesies were fulfilled by Him. Of course, the NT shows His interaction with humanity, while He walked the Earth and how 'the end' will come and how eternity will be for for mankind, either with, or without Him.

I would suggest that you ask your Pastor about Christian marriage being a reflection of the Trinity. The reflection being not of 'substance' but of 'interaction' and 'relationship'. This link is as good as any, to explain the concept.

And why Jesus anyway? Why not the Holy Spirit? That would seem to make more sense if our goal was to somehow crowd one part of the Trinity into the marriage dyad.

There is this verse....

Malachi 2:13-16 And this second thing you do. You cover the Lord's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring.

So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Christians have taken the God of Abraham and comingled him with Jesus, essentially making God Jesus and Jesus God coupled with the Holy Spirit. This prompts the question that how is a Christian marriage different from a Jewish marriage, then. Your comments were instructive on the role of historical difference, the first split of God’s followers into two camps, both of which have either several hunderd sects or several thousand denominations.... It seems neither religion can agree between one another nor themselves!