glean this divine description of marriage: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” So from the earliest pages of Scripture, we see that marriage—an exclusive, passionate, and permanent relationship between a man and a woman—owes its very existence to God. As significant as marriage was in Eden, the full meaning of marriage was not disclosed until the coming of Christ. When the apostle Paul teaches about marriage in Ephesians 5,