Yet with respect to one biological function, you are radically incomplete. It takes two to tango, and it takes two to make a baby. In the marital act, a man’s body and a woman’s body don’t just make contact as in a kiss or interlock as when holding hands. The Hebrew Bible reveals something true about our humanity when it says that a man and a woman in the marital act become “one flesh.” This isn’t merely a figure of speech. The Bible doesn’t say the husband and wife are so much in love it’s as if the two become one. No, the Scriptures rightly suggest that at the physical and metaphysical
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