That is because the entire bride is raptured.J. Jump said:The whole body of Christ will be taken back to heaven, but the whole body will not become part of the bride. You comparing apples and oranges. You started talking about the bride then you start talking about the rapture.
Where is your evidence that it doesn't? He is coming for His bride.Christ will come back and He will take the entire body as you say, but that doesn't prove the point that every member of the body becomes the bride.
Do you create your doctrine from OT allegories or from the truth of the statements of the NT. There are plenty of stories to allegorize in the Old Testament. I read about a couple that got married because of a preachers allegorization of walking around the walls of Jericho seven times. He walked around his girl friend seven times; then they decided to marry. You can make the Bible say anything you want through allegorization. Make up your own doctrine.If what you say is true that destroys several OT types including Adam and Eve.
The doctrine that you quoted, about Eve being the bride, comes straight from Roman Catholicism.
What Catholic commentaries have you been reading recently? Are you implying that Christ was married, or that you have been paying too much attention to movies such as Da'Vinci's Inquest which denies the deity of Christ and also seeks to put Christ as a married man. Either way you seem to be very confused on this point.Eve which typifies the bride of Christ came out of the body of Adam, who is a type of Christ. Now was Eve all the body of Adam or was she a part of Adam's body?
The OT saints will stand by and be a friend of the bride. Eve was a believer. She lived in the OT. In that respect she was no different than any one else. You are stuck on RCC theology and too much allegorization. Just accept the Bible as it is--literal-historical interpretation.She was a part of Adam's body. So will the bride that comes out of the body of Christ be the entire body of Christ or a part of the body of Christ? She will be a part of the body of Christ.
Why not try proving this fanciful story through the Scripture instead of just posting it as a fairytale.She will be the part of the body that is obedient to His commandments, who dies to self, who walks in the Spirit, who does not become a slave to sin, who finishes the race, who crucifies the flesh, who overcomes the world, who overcomes the flesh, who overcomes Satan, who is said to be a good and faithful servant, etc., etc., etc.
I am clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, not because of any works that I have done, but because I am saved. I have been covered with the righteousness of Jesus Christ who shed His blood on my behalf. My sins have been put under his blood, never to be remembered again. They are buried in the depths of the deepest sea, cast behind the Lord's back, never again to be remembered. He again says: As far as the east is from the west, so far have I removed your sin from you.Unfortunately not all Christians do what it is necessary to array themselves in white raiment, becuase they don't have any righteous acts.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.
I am clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. I don't need any other kind of righteousness.
DHK