Is it ever a weird or strange to think of yourself as the bride of Christ? I am not asking this with any reference to homosexuality. I think that it is an amazing relationship to be called as the bride. I really like it but I am a women and hope to be a bride to a man as well as to Christ.
2007-01-16 07:49:35 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am a Christian male and no I don't think it is strange... If you think about the relationship between a bride and a groom, The groom takes care of his bride, he loves and protects her, they become one, they have an intimate relationship with each other, and he loves her no matter what. The bride submits to the groom, and all of those attributes is what I want with my God. Who wouldn't want that kind of relationship with our Lord? I think the only men who think it is strange might just be a little immature. When God states this, obviously it is not in a homosexual manner but as an analogy.
2007-01-16 07:54:28 · answer #1 · answered by eric 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Because it is The Church as a whole that constitutes The Bride of Christ. I/we are but individual parts of the whole, like a Hand or a Foot.
2007-01-16 07:58:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The phrase, 'Bride of Christ', does not refer to any individual, male or female; it refers to the Church of God as a whole. So, I don't feel "weird" at all; I'm a son of God, not a bride.
2007-01-16 08:09:19 · answer #3 · answered by BC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The church is not the bride of Christ
The church is the body of Christ, New Jerusalem is the bride of Christ. Sooooooo many scriptures back this up. There's not one scripture that says the church is the bride of Christ. God will never twist His Word. So he'll never make a man feel like he's a bride.
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. Rev 21:2
The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. John 3:29
We're the friends who are attending, and that's what we're doing now. We're waiting for the marriage of our Christ and New Jerusalem (our reward). SO we can live forever. People think we're gonna live in Heaven, after the judgement. NOT SO!!!
Email me if you want to learn of this more, I have sooo many scriptures back ing this up. Whoever that was named Pilgrim was right
2007-01-16 07:59:49 · answer #4 · answered by Nish 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The reference may seem awkward at first. But I realize that being in the community of believers there is no gender. And this community of believers are ONE in Christ. Therefore Scripture will use the metaphor of a bride.
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
Gal. 3:28-29
2007-01-16 07:58:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
at first yes, but a bride is only figuratively female just as if you read Isaiah you find out that Christ is the bride of God, which would really be kind of incestual and homesexual by human standards. Of course, in the spirit, there is neither male nor female, that is only for this world, where the physical is only a shadow of that which is to come.
2007-01-16 08:01:19 · answer #6 · answered by t 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't bother me at all! All true believers are part of the Church, which is designated in God's Word as being the eventual Bride of Christ when he returns to join us to the heavenly realm we were promised so long ago, much like a man is joined to his wife by promises made to her.
2007-01-16 08:54:55 · answer #7 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the term "the Bride of Christ" referrs to the church as a whole, not just to the individual. That is how I look at it.
2007-01-16 07:57:58 · answer #8 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bride is refer to the Church
2007-01-16 07:57:55 · answer #9 · answered by Near of DN 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is harder for a guy to picture themselves as the bride of Christ, but if then really love God and Jesus, then they shouldn't have a problem.
2007-01-16 07:53:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋