Is The Body Of Christ The Lamb's Wife?

[Ronald David Bruno]

So, a simile and a metaphor are the same?

Not a simile, a metaphor. Our relationship with Christ is described as a metaphor of marriage, with Christ as the bridegroom and the Church as the bride. It's a metaphorical, spiritual union rather than a literal union where 3-4 billion souls walk down the Church aisle and meet Christ at the pulpit, we all say our vows, pledge our eternal love and vows in unison, a priest declares us husband and wife and Christ puts rings on all our fingers.

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

So, a simile and a metaphor are the same?

Only when it's a euphemism for something

 

[ScottA]

We do NOT come out of Christ. We are IN Christ, His Body.

No (that is not what I meant). But rather that Christ came out of God, as did we also, as the descendants Eve.

Yet, by believing in Him, that He is the Son of God and our salvation, the promise of eternal life, is that He and the Father enter into us and we in Him becoming One as they are One (as foreshadowed in marriage). "Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming" (1 Corinthians 15:23).

 

[Marilyn C]

No (that is not what I meant). But rather that Christ came out of God, as did we also, as the descendants Eve.

Yet, by believing in Him, that He is the Son of God and our salvation, the promise of eternal life, is that He and the Father enter into us and we in Him becoming One as they are One (as foreshadowed in marriage). "Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming" (1 Corinthians 15:23).

So Scott,

What do these scriptures mean to you?

`...so as to create one New Man...` (Eph. 2: 15)

`...till we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect Man...` (Eph. 4: 13)

`...and that you put on the New Man...` (Eph. 4: 24)

 

[ScottA]

So Scott,

What do these scriptures mean to you?

`...so as to create one New Man...` (Eph. 2: 15)

`...till we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect Man...` (Eph. 4: 13)

`...and that you put on the New Man...` (Eph. 4: 24)

Much of scripture straddles the line (the divide) between heaven and earth. Meaning, for instance, "a man" may refer to role appointed to men of the specific image of God, or alternatively, simply to mankind or a man of flesh and blood born of a women. Such is the confusion placed upon all language, that must be rightly divided and spiritually discerned.

In the case of those scriptures you gave above, they speak specifically to the transition between the two. Meaning, its speaks of mankind apart from God becoming "new" as transformed to be as God, of God, in God.