Metaphysics of two becoming one

[edgarallanpo]

In what sort of way do two become one in marriage? I ask this because I read another thread on Catholic Answers Forum that explained that marriage is only to death, and that after death in heaven we are not married. If two become one, we redivide at death?

Sort of an aside, I forget where in the New Testament, but it says that we should no longer marry or give ourselves in marriage (I think in the context of the anticipation of the return of Christ). Hopefully someone could post the verse here. How do we as Catholics interpret this?

Thank you!

 

[mcrow]

You become one in flesh through relations and having children.

Two lives become one which is why the church isn’t real big on divorce. A man and a woman who enter into the union are so entwined in their lives and faith that in most cases they cannot be truly split.

 

[petra22]

I think it’s in Matthew 29? In heaven, no marriage or giving in marriage.

 

[EasterJoy]

Read the whole passage: So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate. Matt. 19:6

When we die, we who are married are separated by God from our spouses. The one who dies and attains Heaven lives in that greater unity with God, of which marriage is a foreshadowing, as it is the model of the mystery of Christ and His Church. The one who still struggles with the Church Militant is then free to pursue salvation with another in marriage, in this life which only foreshadows eternal life. (See Ephesians 5)