Susanna Krizo

Thanks Tl, I know that I misspell tons of words, especially when my fingers are trying to keep up with my thoughts but bethrowed was just so bad that I had to point it out! It all stems from being trilingual… in Finnish we write words the way they sound (which is also true of Spanish), and when I am really tired, my brain cannot always separate which language I am dealing with and defaults to Finnish. It is an interesting phenomenon.

BTW, since one person cannot experience marital love on his or her own, the whole point with the comparison of Christ-church and husband-wife is that it is a metaphor and describes the oneness that exists between the two. If this is not true, then you must explain how the wife is literally the husband’s body and how the church can be literally the body of Christ and experience eros type of love with Christ. Don’t forget that Song of Solomon describes human love and because it offended some, theologians began to see it as a description of the love Christ has for the church. In the OT, God is described as loving Israel and even desiring her sexually, but it does not mean that it actually happened; it is a metaphor used to describe a spiritual reality. (BTW Dave Gen 3.16 does not say the woman desires the man sexually, it should say “and your turning shall be to the man….)
I.e. for Eph 5 to describe eros, you must get rid of the metaphor and read it literally. “Head” should then describe an actual literal head. Is anyone willing to do so?