Im told the bride of christ is one person ?

Question

Im told there is only one bride and the church is the body is this true?it says it in 2 cor 11.2 but every christain i have asked says differant? why is it whenever i read a simple sentence out of the bible every christain says it doesnt mean that it means something totaly differant?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

NO, if you could understand revelations, then you would understand exactly what the bride of Christ is. I have studied the Bible for 25 years and I know exactly who that bride is.I hope your ready for this. Revelations1 v 1 speaks of a woman, she a symbolic woman or a sign. If you don't understand revelation there isn't much point in an explanation it would take all night. This is where the bride of Christ comes from but it does NOT mean the church,it is nothing to do with the churches. The bride is the true Christian followers of Christ these are Jehovah's people. God condemns the churches and all who are associated with them.

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Answer 3

The Bride of Christ is the Church as a whole. Using a single person to represent a people group can be found in a number of places in the Bible. Israel was, originally, one person's name. God also talks about Israel & Judah's taking on the religion and customs of other nations in the terms of an adulterous wife.

Answer 4

It is a figure of speech. Paul is using a metaphor, where one thing is used of another.

The bride of Christ biblically is Israel, the Israel of the OT and Gospels.

The Body is the church from Acts and the nine Church epistles.

The difference is that up until the day of pentecost mentioned in Acts 2, the ages all involved Israel being the church and priests to the rest of the world. Then Christ came and was rejected by Israel (The Bride). He was Crucified and raised from the dead.

Then came the day of pentecost. A new age began. The age of Grace where man is not justified by the law of Moses (which was fulfilled by Christ), but by faith.

The age of Grace was a hidden mystery the understanding of which God never revealed until he showed it to paul. The age of Grace means that we can be born of God and saved from the wrath and judgement to come. We merely confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in our heart that God raised him from the dead.

When we become born again of God like this we become members of the body of Christ. This body represents Christ on earth while Christ is absent himself. They are to do the things he did, teach as he did, love as he did, and walk as he did. They are the true Christians.

So there is the truth on the Body and Bride.

All that is left is to say that when Jesus Christ returns the Age of Grace ends. Then begins the other ages mentioned in Revelations, culminating in the two resurrections and judgement.

Answer 5

The reason is because religion - all religion, with the possible exceptions of buddhism and Taoism is about controlling the masses. Jesus probably had a relationship with someone called Mary Magdalene and that somewhere today is his offspring running around doing lots of secreit handshakes with people and making a shed load of money out of the film The Davinci Code - which was crap by the way. The actual truth of Christianity and all that is probably a lot closer to that represented in Monty Python's Life of Brian than anything you might read in the bible, which is probably not to dissimilar to the three cup and ball trick - that's why everything you read in it - is contracted somewhere else in it.

"Well it says "blah blah blah" - next person well it says in that bit "blah blah blah" - "I need to get a copy of my own to check" - and hence another sale - but even thought it IS crap (well the film is) - The Da Vinci Code is catching the Bible up in sales - trouble is the Bible's had such a head start!!!!!

Answer 6

The Bride of Christ is The Church.

Answer 7

it relatively is my information that the present of tongues is given to facilitate coaching and different communications. hence it would be expressed in (a) a facility in discovering yet another language; (b) non everlasting skill to communicate and/or understand yet another language (as on the day of Pentecost); or (c) the intermittent and advert hoc use of unknown languages to precise an substantial component completely. The apostle Paul grow to be of the opinion that folk shouldn't disrupt worship centers with utterances supposedly given via the Spirit, enormously if there isn't any one with the present of interpretation of tongues contemporary. curiously the subject grow to be as undesirable in Christ's unique church because it relatively is on the instant. after all, if somebody seems to be talking in an unknown language, how might all of us comprehend? He and the interpreter must be cooperating to drag some thing over on us.

Answer 8

The bride of Christ is the Church, the whole community of born-again believers.

Answer 9

The bride of Christ is the Church. Not any physical building, not any specific denomination, but truly repentant, saved individuals make up the Church.

Answer 10

Not only can Christians say a sentence mean something other than what it clearly says - they can pick and choose passages from a giant ancient book to justify any little sickness in their soul. This guy did a great job taking a literal reading of the King James version of the bible and holding them piece by piece to the light of day.

Answer 11

Lost me totally with that question. Have you ever thought of reading something different to the bible like something by the Bronte sisters? and leaving it to priests to interpret. it sounds like you think too much what others say and what the bible means in literary context rather than its teachings