God was "Husband" to His People Jeremiah 31:32.
Jesus is "Husband" to God's People Revelation 19:7.
Jesus is God--only God relates to God's People as "Husband".
No one but God has the right to stand in God's place.
The place of "Husband" is reserved for God.
Objection :
"His People" changed, thus God has ceased relating to His People as their Husband--He remains their God, their Savior, their Father, their Master, but He has delegated his Husband role to His Son.
Answer :
Untrue, since the very same term is utilized in denouncing both the unfaithfulness of God's Old Covenant People and that of New Testament People against God : "adultery" (marital unfaithfulness). In both cases, there is adultery and it is being committed against God.
Ezekiel 16
32Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
James 4
4You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.
Jesus is "Husband" to God's People Revelation 19:7.
Jesus is God--only God relates to God's People as "Husband".
No one but God has the right to stand in God's place.
The place of "Husband" is reserved for God.
Objection :
"His People" changed, thus God has ceased relating to His People as their Husband--He remains their God, their Savior, their Father, their Master, but He has delegated his Husband role to His Son.
Answer :
Untrue, since the very same term is utilized in denouncing both the unfaithfulness of God's Old Covenant People and that of New Testament People against God : "adultery" (marital unfaithfulness). In both cases, there is adultery and it is being committed against God.
Ezekiel 16
32Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
James 4
4You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.