This post doesn’t fit into the neat, well-ordered framework and subject order I was considering for my series on “Libertarian Theology”, but Libertarian Theology seems to be the logical category for it.
I was talking to a friend when he detoured the topic to the subject of sexual mores and monogamy. He asserted that very few animal species have anything like sexual monogamy, and that it was a somewhat new thing even for human experience. My mind went naturally to the Genesis “one flesh” passage as a response, when suddenly it hit me why monogamy was correct, and what human monogamy tells us about God and Theology.
In Genesis it says that God made man in his image. It also said that God knew it was not good for man to be alone. How did God know it was not good to be alone?
To understand this is to understand more about the Trinity. God is one God, yet three persons. God is one, yet God is not alone.
Genesis also says a man and his wife shall become one flesh. Monogamy is a witness, a sign, of the Trinity. They. are one flesh, like God is one; they are more than one person, as God is three; and thus they are NOT ALONE.
In answer to the question, what does it mean to be made in the image of God, my answer had come to be that we are like him in certain attributes: :God is creational and relational, as are we. But now I see it is even deeper than that. God made us so that we would not be alone, as He is not alone, and we would still be one, even as he is one. Monogamy is a witness to the Trinity.
At The Rainbow 