Perspective on Weddings---Jesus Saves Singles; Only Saves the Married if ...

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Went to a beautiful wedding today. And the priest informed us (in his homily---the sermon he gave about-the event & -the readings the lector read us) that 'the man and the wife are to serve as an example of the way God loves us (remembering that our sacrament of Holy Communion is said to be a remembrance of the Church's marriage to Christ---one "reason why" Catholic priests are not married), 'so-much-so that the man and wife are each-other's only way into Heaven (he can't get in unless she gets in, and vice-versa).' That's probably true (and here I go into a rant), but the priest used a Scripture-passage the exact way I hate. I've mentioned the passage here before, and--tho Christian sheep hear it as '[/b]an ancient prophet telling us[/b] "God so loved the world that he gave Jesus to us"'--anyone reading the passage (& staying aware of its context) can see that it's actually 'Jesus telling a Pharisee "God so loved the world ..." I know you might think that--since Jesus talked about Himself so many times 'as if He was talking about someone else--John 3:16 was just 'another time He was doing that.' And maybe you're right. But one place He was definitely talking about Himself stands out in my mind: http://biblehub.com/interlinear/john/5-31.htm "If I bear witness concerning myself, the testimony of me is not TRUE." ... maybe that will inspire a whole `nother discussion; but right now it lends creedence to the sermon's "salvation by marriage"-idea. One of the lectory-readings today was the passage in Genesis where God sees that Adam can't run this world by himself, sends all the animals to help but sees that none of them are adequate help, and so extracts one of Adam's own ribs & makes a new being out of it. And Adam meets this creature, recognizes it as an equal, and names it. In fact, that 'not getting into Heaven without you'-idea actually springs from the very fact that makes us fear we won't get into Heaven! See--after Eve ate the forbidden fruit (which some people think is "euphemism for baby-making with Satan")--Adam could have 'divorced' her & run the risk of staying 'in paradise' all alone. But Adam "so loved" Eve that he joined her in the sin (hopefully showing us that the 'euphemism' is incorrect ) and accepted the consequences that she deserved.