A friend recently made the case that even though he didn't feel like he and his wife were one, that they were one in the eyes of God. He believed that God no longer saw them as two people, but one. I am not sure what this can mean. At the resurrection, they will be awarded the same body to share, with a personality that is an amalgamation of the two? Sounds frightening. The two people have two different bodies, personalities, wills, needs, callings, roles, and desires. They have two separate lives, if one dies they do not both die. In short, they remain "Two" for all practical purposes. I am not sure what it would profit to imagine this is not so. Perhaps it serves to reinforce the unacceptability of divorce--very pragmatic, but is it based in truth?
The answer to the nature of oneness between man and wife matters for all of us, because it is a metaphor for our oneness with God. In what way are a husband and wife one that mirrors Christ's relationship with the church? Answer that, and I think you will find volumes about what it means to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit and the delight of obedience.
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