Who is the Bride of Christ

Must an atheist be the one to give the correct answer? The bride referred to allegorically in the NT, is the church itself.

God the Mother

REVELATION 21:9 GALATIANS 4:26

His bride is the ones who have made themselves ready, they are adorned in white , and without spot or blemish. Their lamps are full of oil ( representing the Holy Spirit )they are watching and waiting for their bridegroom to appear, they have kept themselves spotless from the world, the spirit of unbelief, and the evil one himself, and they long for the appearing of their beloved.

Not sure. Wasn’t that part of the bible taken out a long time ago? The government has certain books from the bible hidden.

Crazy people altering the bible -_-

The bride of Jesus Christ??? There is none, though some think Mary Magillian was his lover. The Devinci Code goes into it. The Holy Grail they think was Mary’s lineage.

If it wasn’t in the Bible, I wouldn’t be asking for scriptural reference and it has never been taken out of the Bible. If you don’t have an answer, why invent one?

All Christians, believers who are truly christians are the ‘bride of Christ’ Rev.19; 7 When He comes in the ‘rapture ‘(1 Thessalonians 4:13,14,15,16,17,&18) HIs church will be taken from this earth, after the dead in Christ rises first…

Like Toadaly said… it’s the church… at least from a traditional point of view…

From the more esoteric point of view… Jesus… the Logos Aeon… was coupled with Sophia… a feminine Aeon counterpart interpreted as the Holy Spirit… and as the name suggests… wisdom.

As Jesus came to earth to imbue it with the logos… or Knowledge… Sophia… Jesus’ counterpart… came to imbue her wisdom as the holy spirit of the church.

interesting point of view which I also subscribe to. also the Sophia is known by some as the Shekinah aspect of G-d’s character-person (the female). I see God as both male and female in nature.

The Bible says there is but one body, or church, into which Jesus calls His end-time people - the Bride of Christ. To some, this is unnerving, as there are thousands of different churches today that call themselves Christian. Virtually every one claims to be God’s church, yet they each differ widely in biblical interpretation, faith, and practice. It’s quite impossible for the honest seeker of truth to investigate the claims of each one. However, we can be thankful that Jesus has solved this dilemma for us by describing His church in such detail that you can easily identify it! That description, vivid and powerful, is found in Revelation 12 and 14, and it will thrill you with amazing truths that will help you in the end times. Please read Revelation 12:1-17

Jesus symbolizes His church as a woman “clothed with the sun,” with “the moon under her feet,” and wearing “a crown of twelve stars.”

Verses 6 and 14 say, “The woman fled into the wilderness,” where she was protected for “a time, and times, and half a time” (or 1,260 literal years) from the wrath of Satan-who was then working through papal Rome. The “two wings” represent the protection and support God gave the church during her time in the “wilderness” (Exodus 19:4; Deuteronomy 32:11). The time spent in the wilderness is the same 1,260-year period of papal prominence and persecution (A.D. 538 to 1798) that Jesus repeatedly mentioned in prophecy. One prophetic day equals one literal year (Ezekiel 4:6).

The term “wilderness” refers to the solitary places of earth (mountains, caves, forests, etc.) where God’s people could hide in seclusion and thus escape total annihilation (Hebrews 11:37, 38). And hide they did ,the Waldenses, Albigenses, Huguenots, and many others. God’s people (His church) would have been obliterated if they had not fled and hid in the wilderness during this devastating persecution by the papacy. (In one 40-year period, “from the beginning of the order of the Jesuits, in the year 1540, to 1580, nine hundred thousand were destroyed. One hundred fifty thousand perished in the Inquisition in 30 years.” 1) At least 50 million people died for their faith during this 1,260-year time period. God’s church did not exist as an official organization during this 1,260-year time period. From A.D. 538 to 1798 it was alive but not identifiable as an organization. When it came out of hiding after the 1,260 years, it still had the same doctrine and characteristics as the apostolic church, which entered the “wilderness” in A.D. 538.

There are many loving, genuine Christians in churches that were officially in existence before 1798. But none of these churches can be God’s end-time church into which Jesus is calling all His people, because Jesus’ end-time church had to arise after 1798. This means that most of the popular Protestant churches cannot be God’s end-time church because they existed officially before 1798.