Eph. 5:28-32 Husbands, love your wives asChrist loves the church and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle etc.; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man hates his own flesh but nourishes & cherishes it even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh , and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his parents and be joined with his wife and they two shall be one flesh.
This is the great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
2006-11-09 02:36:20 · 8 answers · asked by t_a_m_i_l 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The mystery is this: that the Body of Christ, His Church, is like a wife to Him. This is why we're called the Bride of Christ. At the same time, we are also His Body. So we're BOTH His future bride AND Christ's presence on the earth.
A "mystery" is something that's difficult for some to understand, which is the case here. How many times have you read responses from unbelivers who mock us for calling ourselves Christ's future Bride, or the Body of Christ?
There is a Biblical prescedent for this. God refered to Israel as His wife. Read Ezekiel 3, for example.
Peace.
2006-11-09 02:44:12 · answer #1 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This means that husbands needs to love thier wives like Christ loves the Church. One Flesh means when a man and a woman gets married they are one flesh not two. That is why when you get married there isn't her money his money or her stuff his stuff and so on it's yours all together. My husband and I combind our money into one and we do the bills and get the food and stuff we need
2006-11-09 02:42:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
faith divides, unites, evokes and saves. From Christians to Muslims, This key's that for the duration of the process the unfold of the gospel, the gentiles are heirs, along with Israel, participants collectively of one physique, and all of us proportion collectively interior the promise of Christ Jesus. (see Ephesians 3:6, NIV) "The secret of religion" includes a God you are able to no longer see, and a heaven you are able to no longer pattern this component of demise!!! For us, a key's something confusing, complicated, unknown, or maybe unknowable. If we can't fathom something, we are saying, “It’s a secret to me.” So as quickly as we hear with regards to the ‘secret of our faith’ in church or see the observe ‘secret’ interior the hot testomony, we as we talk think of of Jessica Fletcher, Lieutenant Columbo, omit Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Perry Mason, or Poirot—and we don’t see the relationship. In that experience, there is no secret of our faith in any respect, through fact certainly everyone knew all alongside that Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus. there is no scene interior the hot testomony (neither is there a want for one) the place all the apostles are amassed interior the drawing room, neither is there a detective to throw up a chain of circumstances implicating each and each apostle in turn till Judas breaks down and confesses. That’s no longer so mysterious, a minimum of no longer from now on! Paul defined that his interest as an apostle is to make certainly everyone understand this secret, which replaced into stored imprecise interior the previous. Christ has died Christ is risen Christ will come again! This suits, through fact even nonetheless this certainty is glaring to us as we talk, it replaced into no longer so glaring interior the previous. would your techniques bounce with exhilaration as you realize its utter simplicity; would the secret of our faith, which replaced into as quickly as imprecise, be glaring and undeniable to you:
2016-12-10 05:50:59 · answer #3 · answered by keetan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this passage means that husbands should love and respect their wives as much as they respect themselves.
2006-11-09 02:38:55 · answer #4 · answered by mighty_power7 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, the great mystery is "what kind of latte would Jesus get at the mega-church starbucks?":
I'm going with lowfat venti caramel machiato.
2006-11-09 02:39:06 · answer #5 · answered by Black Parade Billie 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
it also says wives summit to your husband.
2006-11-09 02:41:48 · answer #6 · answered by NONAME 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think peeps need to worry about their own lives rather than take in so much ancient literature...thats just me though...
2006-11-09 02:38:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
The biggest mystery is that people actually thinks he exists.
2006-11-09 02:38:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋