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An 1880 Baxter process illustration of Revelation 22:17 by Joseph Martin Kronheim. The bride of Christ, or the lamb's wife, [1] is a metaphor used in number of related verses in the Christian Bible, specifically the New Testament – in the Gospels, the Book of Revelation, the Epistles, with related verses in the Old Testament.
In the Catholic Church, a consecrated virgin is a woman who has been consecrated by the church to a life of perpetual virginity as a bride of Christ. Consecrated virgins are consecrated by the diocesan bishop according to the approved liturgical rite.
This view holds to Genesis 1 that men and women are made in equal dignity yet also emphasizes relational distinctions via St. Paul’s teaching that marriage signifies the unity between Christ and his bride the Church, which entails the man is to be like Christ and the woman is to be like the Church. 3.
The LDS Church also teaches that marriage is a partnership of equals, and that partners should be thoughtful, respectful, and loyal to one another. [9] The church teaches that if couples keep their lives centered on Jesus Christ, their love will grow. [10]
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]
The bride of Christ is a metaphor for the Christian Church. Bride of Christ or Brides of Christ may also refer to: Christian nun, a woman who vows to dedicate her life to Christian service and contemplation; Consecrated virgin, a virgin woman who has been consecrated by the Church as a bride of Christ
Still a believer after his excommunication, in 1840 Hinkle founded a Latter Day Saint denomination known as the Church of Jesus Christ, the Bride, the Lamb's Wife. Its membership drew primarily from members who had dissented from the church when it was headquartered in Far West in 1838.
Ahn Sahng-hong interpreted the ‘Bride of Christ' as the ‘church' or ‘saints' in his books. [n] [57] However, in his book 'The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life,' published in 1980, Ahn Sahng-hong mentioned in the sixth-day creation diagram, 'In the last days, the Spirit and the Bride will appear and lead all Gentile ...