Is John 17:22 an allusion to Genesis 2:24?

Question

[John 17:21-23 KJV] (21) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. (22) And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: (23) I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

[Gen 2:24 KJV] (24) Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Paul certainly uses the analogy in a similar "A-B-C" idea, layering the same analogy from different perspectives, first wives, then husbands:

[Eph 5:22-24 KJV] (22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. (24) Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

[Eph 5:25-32 KJV] (25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (27) That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. (28) So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. (29) For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: (30) For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. (31) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. (32) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Should we then look to the making of Adam and Eve as models of:

• God and Sophia becoming one (Proverbs 8:22ff)
• God and Christ becoming one (Zech 14:9)
• Christ and the Assembly becoming one (John 17)
• Husbands and wives becoming one (Eph 5)

Is the Adam/Eve pattern of "becoming one" behind "that they may be one just as we are one"? IE: Are God, Sophia, Christ, the Assembly and husbands and wives all congruent?

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Answer 1

The principle of unity is inherent in God as the "Shema Israel" points out by stating that the Lord is God and the Lord is ONE:

[Deu 6:4-9 ESV] (4) "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. (5) You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. (6) And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. (7) You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. (8) You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. (9) You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

In the beginning (Genesis 1) Heaven and Earth were ONE, or united, and humans walked in the presence of God.

The same principle of unity is "stamped" so to say in everything God creates... and although sin cause division in the created, there is still enough evidence in creation, experience and obviously revelation, of our purpose in being created for unity/ union. This is manifested in Jesus' prayer in John 17, revealing both His desire for us to live on unity and His nature of union with the Father:

[Jhn 17:11 ESV] (11) And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

The highest participation of humans in the divine act of creation is pro-creation and thus, it is no surprise that this also reveals the principle of union in the Creator/ created by the necessary union of man and woman.

Holiness is often understood in the Christian world as Union with God, and I consider it to be the best definition by far since it is not only consistent with the principle of union revealed in the Scriptures but also in the created.

I don't consider John 17:22 to be simply an allusion to Genesis 2:24 but rather another further revelation of God's nature and if His "modus operandi" in creation. Scripture and nature (material and spiritual) are both consistent with the ancient prayer of Israel... the Lord is One, and we, created in His image and likeness, are meant to be clear manifestations of this unity- with self, with others, with the cosmos and with God Himself, as He meant it from the beginning.