Cheryl Schatz

NN,
If you read the quotes that I gave, you will see the argument about Christ meaning the anointed one = the Messiah. The Word took on flesh. The flesh is the Messiah. Now if God wanted us to believe that the husband reflects God, He would have said that marriage reflects God and the church. As I said the term God is not the same as the term Christ as the Christ is human. It was the Word who took on flesh not the Father.

Your view that God is the same as Christ gives you a faulty view of the metaphor of the human Christ and the church. I have found no place at all that ever says that marriage reflects GOD and the church and if I am wrong you will have to correct me. You haven’t done that yet.

The church is made up of male and female and all of us reflect the church. At the same time all of us reflect Jesus as we are to be made in His image. None of us is to be left out in the reflection of BOTH the church and the Lord Jesus. To say that the male reflect Jesus alone would not be accurate. And to say that the female reflects the church alone would not be accurate.

If we start with a faulty premise, then the reflection will be muddy and unclear.